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By
S. Peng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
L.E. Babcock, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
H. Lin, Chinese Academy of Arts, Nanjing, China
Description
China is richly endowed with Cambrian strata yielding some of the best-preserved fossils known anywhere in the world. The trilobites are
most important element in the fauna, and of scientific relevance for several reasons. First, they are of regional importance in the precise
correlation of strata, and are of primary use in characterising mappable formations. Second, some of the species are widespread internationally,
and these permit the placing of Chinese stratigraphical schemes within the global chronostratigraphy. Thirdly, the variety, relationships
and endemicity of the faunas contributes to the broad questions of how evolution proceeded in the Cambrian, and is relevant to debates
about whether special conditions applied at the early stage of the Phanerozoic radiation.
Volume 1 of this set contains
general geologic information concerning the Huaqiao Formation of the northwestern Hunan, lithostratigraphic data, biostratigraphic zonation,
detailed description of three stratigraphic sections, and the systematic of corynexochid, lichid, and as aphid trilobites. Volume
2 contains systematic treatments of ptychopariids, eodiscids, trilobites of uncertain affinity, and some undertermined sclerites.
In both volumes, considerable effort was made to reillustrate type material of many previously described taxa. In some older literature,
illustrations were not always reproduced well, so the new illustrations should help to clarify taxonomic concepts.
Audience
Geologists and Paleontologists specifcally interested in Cambrian geology.
Contents
Volume 1
Foreword
Introduction
Previous Work
Geologic Setting
Correlation
Systematic Paleontology
References
Index of
Species and Genera
Plates
Volume 2
Introduction
Systematic Paleontology
References
Index
Plates
Volumes
1-2: Polymerid Tribolites from the Cambrian of Northwestern Hunan, China, Two-Volume Set, 1-2
Bibliographic & ordering Information |
1-2 - Polymerid Tribolites from the Cambrian of Northwestern Hunan, China, Two-Volume Set, 1-2
Hardbound, 688 pages, publication date: JUN-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-08-045041-4
ISBN-10: 0-08-045041-5
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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Price:
USD 230
EUR 163.95
GBP 138.99
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