UID:
edocfu_9961252463802883
Format:
1 online resource (183 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-253-05824-4
Series Statement:
Life of the past
Content:
"Collector's Guide to Fort Payne Crinoids and Blastoids is the first comprehensive guide for identifying the fossils of echinoderms from hundreds of millions of years ago, when North America was covered by a warm, equatorial sea. Crinoids and blastoids, echinoderms (the same family of marine animals to include starfish, sea urchins, and sand dollars) from the Fort Payne Formation in Kentucky, are rarely seen at gem, mineral, and fossil shows, nor are they regularly displayed at major museums. By combining high-quality color photographs and an accompanying descriptive text, William W. Morgan provides the first comprehensive identification guide to these fascinating fossils. Collector's Guide to Fort Payne Crinoids and Blastoids features photographs, often offering more than one view, of the best-quality specimens curated in the Smithsonian and other prominent invertebrate fossil museums. Morgan includes photographs that are unlabeled so that readers can test themselves to see whether they can differentiate some of the more subtle features that may be necessary for accurate identification"--
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Mississippian Period -- 1. Geologic History and Morphology of Paleozoic Crinoids -- Brief Geologic History -- Background -- Morphology -- Postmortem Preservation -- Paleobiology of Crinoids -- 2. Classi˛cation of Paleozoic Crinoids -- Subclass Camerata -- Subclass Pentacrinoidea -- 3. Early Mississippian Deposits -- Hampton Formation -- Burlington Limestone -- Gilmore City Formation -- Keokuk Limestone -- Edwardsville Formation -- Fort Payne Formation
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4. Fort Payne Crinoids-Class-Crinoidea -- Subclass Camerata -- Subclass Pentacrinoidea -- 5. Fort Payne Blastoids-Class-Blastoidea -- Morphology -- Classification -- Family Neoschismatidae -- Family Granatocrinidae -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-05825-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
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