British Fossil Brachiopoda - Volume 3

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-108-03819-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 682 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 1734 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Life Sciences

British palaeontologist Thomas Davidson (1817-85) was born in Edinburgh and began his studies at the city's university. Encouraged by German palaeontologist Leopold von Buch, he began to study brachiopod fossils at the age of twenty, and he quickly became the undisputed authority. He was elected fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1852, receiving the Wollaston medal in 1865. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857. Published between 1850 and 1886, this six-volume work became the definitive reference text on the subject. It includes more than two hundred hand-drawn plates and a comprehensive bibliography. This volume, the third of six, details the Devonian and Silurian brachiopod species, and features an essay by Roderick Impey Murchison on the classification of Silurian rocks.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidson, Thomas

Weitere Mitwirkende

Owen, Richard

Carpenter, William Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläozoologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part VI. The Devonian Brachiopoda: Preliminary remarks; British Devonian Brachiopoda; Conclusion; Index; Part VII. The Silurian Brachiopoda: Preliminary observations; British Silurian Brachiopoda; Conclusion; Index to volumes I, II, and III.