Experimental approaches to understanding fossil organisms : lessons from the living /

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Imprint:Dordrecht : Springer, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 420 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language:English
Series:Topics in Geobiology, 0275-0120 ; 41
Topics in geobiology ; 41.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11084983
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Other authors / contributors:Hembree, Daniel I., editor.
Platt, Brian F., editor.
Smith, Jon J., editor.
ISBN:9789401787215
9401787212
9401787204
9789401787208
9789401787208
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 13, 2014).
Summary:Paleontologists and geologists struggle with research questions often complicated by the loss or even absence of key paleobiological and paleoenvironmental information. Insight into this missing data can be gained through direct exploration of analogous living organisms and modern environments. Creative, experimental, and interdisciplinary treatments of such ancient-Earth analogs form the basis of this volume. It unites a diverse range of expert paleontologists, neontologists, and geologists presenting case studies that cover a spectrum of topics, including functional morphology, taphonomy, environments, and organism-substrate interactions.
Other form:Printed edition: 9789401787208
Standard no.:10.1007/978-94-017-8721-5