Cenozoic Seas: The View from Eastern North America

ISBN-13: 9780367394660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 324 str.

Edward J. Petuch

Opis

This guide analyzes the changing geography, the arrival and departures of ecosystems and species, and the affect of climate on living things in the prehistoric seas of the eastern U.S. The author classifies all of the region's fossil-bearing formations and their contents within a logical, descriptive framework, allowing a determination of how community types were affected by geography and climate. This enables a study of life in the environmental and biotic contexts in which evolution, invasion, and extinction occur. The book is also an excellent field guide for fossil collectors, providing a detailed narrative for all species illustrated. Many organisms have never before been illustrated in a book on fossil shells.

Spis treści

Paleoseas of Cenozoic Eastern North. Biogeography of the Eastern American Paleoseas. Oligocene and Earliest Miocene Seas. Early Miocene Seas. Middle and Late Miocene Seas. Early and Late Pliocene Seas. The Everglades Pseudoatoll. Latest Pliocene and Earliest Pleistocene Seas. Early and Late Pleistocene Seas. Biotic Patterns in Time and Space.

O autorze

Petuch, Edward J.