A guide to fossils /
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| Author / Creator: | Mayr, Helmut |
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| Uniform title: | Fossilien. English |
| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1992. |
| Description: | 256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1556349 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Palaeontology
- Branches of palaeontology
- Fossils
- The formation of fossils
- The emplacement of fossils (taphonomy)
- The preservation of fossils
- Systematic survey of the main groups
- Fossil animals
- Fossil plants
- The history of life on Earth
- The origins of life and its first primitive forms
- The development of life from the Cambrian to the Quaternary
- Time-chart of the principal groups of plants, invertebrates and vertebrates
- Some tips about fossil collecting as a hobby
- Animal fossils
- Unicellular organisms
- Archaeocyathids
- Sponges
- Cnidaria
- Corals
- Bivalves
- Scaphopods
- Snails
- Cephalopods
- Nautiloids
- Ammonoids
- Squids and cuttlefish
- Belemnites
- Segmented worms
- Trilobites
- King crabs
- Sea scorpions
- Crustaceans
- Insects
- Bryozoans
- Brachiopods
- Echinoderms
- Sea lilies
- Brittle stars
- Sea urchins
- Graptolites
- Agnatha (jawless fishes)
- Primitive fishes
- Cartilaginous fishes
- Bony fishes
- Amphibians
- Reptiles
- Birds
- Mammals
- Trace fossils
- Plant fossils
- Algae
- Mosses
- Fungi
- Primitive ferns
- Club mosses
- Horsetails
- Ferns
- Gymnosperms
- Angiosperms
- Forms resembling fossils
- Further reading
- Glossary
- Index
