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paleocommunities 2 part set
fossil communities chiefly benthic from silurian and devonian rocks are looked at in detail within this book . discussion of their environmental and evolutionary significance provides a unique ecological view of this intensively studied part of the stratigraphic column . it is hoped that this case study will illustrate a new trend for palaeontological research and synthesis that could be applied to other time intervals . forty contributions from all parts of the world discuss and exemplify the general principles of this massive compilation and provide descriptions of many of the shelly mid silurian and early devonian benthic communities in encyclopaedic form . biostratigraphers and palaeontologists as well as evolutionists and ecologists concerned with fossil communities and their evolution will find this volume of interest . this book forms the final report of igcp project 53 .
paperback cambridge university press 2010 isbn13 9780521115315 isbn10 0521115310
abridged n isbn 13 9780521115315 number in series 1 number of pages 920 publisher cambridge university press release date 62135769600000 series title world and regional geology