Download or read book Brachiopods written by Paul Copper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of conference papers presents information on the molecular genetics, biomineralization, growth and ecology of extant brachiopod stocks (extrapolated back to the Cambrian), and the shell microstructure, taphonomy, paleogeography, evolution, and taxonomy of fossil brachiopods.
Download or read book The Genus Conus Mollusca Neogastropoda in the Plio Pleistocene of the Southeastern United States written by Jonathan Robert Hendricks and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conus (or cone) shells are common in many Pliocene and Pleistocene fossil deposits from the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States, but have never been the subjects of a comprehensive taxonomic review or revision. In total, 84 names (including those of some Recent species and fossil taxa from other strata or areas) have been applied to Plio-Pleistocene cone shells from this region, and since Green described Conus marylandicus in 1830, and additional 59 species have been described from these strata. Forty of these taxa were described in the last 17 years and were published outside of the peer-reviewed literature, making their status as distinct species suspect, particularly because most are poorly illustrated, perfunctorily described, and based on few specimens. This makes them nearly impossible to evaluate without direct inspection of type material and/or access to large suites of specimens. Evaluating whether these suspect taxon names represent distinctive morphospecies is critical to attaining an understanding of the evolutionary history and diversity of Neogene and Recent Conus in the western Atlantic. The present work provides a systematic treatment of 82 of the 84 names that have been applied to Conus shells from the Plio-Pleistocene fossil records of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida. Here, through application of a conservative morphological species concept (one that accepts large amounts of intraspecific morphological variation), 19 of these nominal taxa are accepted as representing distinctive species of Plio-Pleistocene Conus from this study area. In addition, this investigation also resulted in the discovery of one new fossil morphospecies, described here as Conus burnetti n. sp. An identification key to these 20 species is provided. The status of three additional, previously described species (known only by their type specimens) remains less certain. Two names that are likely familiar to collectors of Plio-Pleistocene Conus from the United States Coastal Plain, C. floridanus Gabb, 1869, and C. druidi Olsson, 1967, are synonymized, respectively, with G. fg. largillierti Kiener, 1845, and C. haytensis G. B. Sowerby II, 1850. All previously described species of sinistral Conus are considered to belong to one highly morphologically variable species, C. adversarius Conrad, 1840.
Download or read book Neogene Mammals written by Spencer G. Lucas and published by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This book was released on 2008 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neogene Mammals: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 44
Download or read book U S Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Predator Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record written by Patricia H. Kelley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Foreword: "Predator-prey interactions are among the most significant of all organism-organism interactions....It will only be by compiling and evaluating data on predator-prey relations as they are recorded in the fossil record that we can hope to tease apart their role in the tangled web of evolutionary interaction over time. This volume, compiled by a group of expert specialists on the evidence of predator-prey interactions in the fossil record, is a pioneering effort to collate the information now accumulating in this important field. It will be a standard reference on which future study of one of the central dynamics of ecology as seen in the fossil record will be built." (Richard K. Bambach, Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech, Associate of the Botanical Museum, Harvard University)
Download or read book Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina North Carolina and Georgia written by Albert E. Sanders and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southeastern area of the U.S. is one of the richest vertebrate fossil localities on the east coast of North America & was recognized as such by Louis Agassiz during his first visit to Charleston in 1847 when he saw the first collection of fossils accumulated by local planter Francis Holmes. Holmes was made curator of The Charleston Museum in 1850 & spent the following years writing books on paleontology & leading the way in developing the mining of phosphate near Charleston. Sanders reports discoveries of vertebrate fossils near Charleston & Myrtle Beach, S. Carolina, & in Brunswick County, N. Carolina, which have provided new records of 37 Pleistocene mammal taxa on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Maps. Black & white illustrations.
Download or read book New Publications of the Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cenozoic Giant Pectinids from California and the Tertiary Caribbean Province written by Judith Terry Smith and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-nine taxa, many of them index species, are described and illustrated; their biostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic significance are related to tectnostratigraphic settings.
Download or read book FOSSIL RECORD 7 written by Spencer G. Lucas and published by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Publications of the U S Geological Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1969 1972 written by and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1973 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Historical Geology written by Raymond Cecil Moore and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecphora Gastropoda Muricidae from the Chesapeake Group of Maryland Virginia Notulae Naturae of The Acad of Natural Sciences of Phila No 469 written by and published by Academy of Natural Sciences. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fossil Record 6 Volume 2 written by Spencer G. Lucas and published by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This book was released on with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
