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A Sea without Fish : Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region
The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during the Ordovician Period, about 450 million years ago-some 250 million years before the dinosaurs lived. In Or...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Repositories of Fossils Illustrated in this Book; 1 Introduction; 2 Science in the Hinterland: The Cincinnati School of Paleontology; 3 Naming and Classifying Organisms; 4 Rocks, Fossils, and Time; 5 Algae: The Base of the Food Chain; 6 Poriferans and Cnidarians: Sponges, Corals, and Jellyfish; 7 Bryozoans Twigs and Bones
- 8 Brachiopods: The Other Bivalves; 9 Molluscs: Hard, but with a Soft Center; 10 Annelids and Worm-Like Fossils; 11 Arthropods: Trilobites and other Legged Creatures; 12 Echinoderms: A World unto themselves.
- 13 Graptolites and Conodonts: Our Closest Relatives?14 Type-Cincinnatian Trace Fossils: Tracks, Trails, and Burrows; 15 Paleogeography and Paleoenvironment; 16 Life in the Cincinnatian Sea; Epilogue: Diving in the Cincinnatian Sea; Appendix 1 Resources: Where to Go for More Information; Appendix 2 Individuals and Institutions Associated with the Type-Cincinnatian; Glossary; References Cited; Index.