The Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils, Fossils of the Rhaetian Penarth Group

Number 9 Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-901702-65-4
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

The Rhaetian Penarth Group includes the former Westbury Beds, Cotham Beds, and White Lias. It crops out in a narrow strip from the Devon and Dorset coast to the mouth of the Tees, and is particularly well known from the exposures along the Bristol Channel. This diverse suite of late Triassic sedimentary rocks is internationally famous for the fossils that it yields, most notably from the bone beds. Coverage is comprehensive, with separate chapters on foraminifera, gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans, insects, echinoderms, other invertebrates, conodonts, fish, tetrapods, trace fossils and plants. There are background chapters on sedimentology, stratigraphy and the formation of the bone beds. The guide is copiously illustrated with specimens from all major UK public collections of Penarth Group fossils illustrated on 26 plates and 30 text-figures. It will be of use both to collectors who want to know more about this diverse and interesting suite of fossils, as well as to students of of geology who wish to understand their conditions of deposition and accumulation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swift, Andrew

Martill, David M

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. INTRODUCTION-THE PENARTH GROUP 9

Andrew Swift and David M. Martin

2. STRATIGRAPHY (INCLUDING BIOSTRATIGRAPHY) 15

Andrew Swift

2. BRIEF HISTORY OF PALAEONTOLOGICAL STUDIES 31

Andrew Swift

4. ASPECTS OF THE SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THE WESTBURY FORMATION 39

Joe H.S. Macquaker

5. BONE BEDS OF, THE WESTBURY FORMATION 49

David M. Martin

6. FORAMINIFERA 65

David M. Martin and Andrew Swift

7. GASTROPODS 75

Michael J. Barker and Martin C. Munt

8. BIVALVES 83

Hugh C. Ivimey-Cook, Peter Hodges, Andrew Swift and Jonathan D. Radley

9. ARTHROPODS 1: CRUSTACEANS 129

Ian D. Boomer, Christopher J. Duffin and Andrew Swift

10. ARTHROPODS 2: INSECTS 149

M.A. Jarzembowski

11. ECHINODERMS 161

Andrew Swift

12. OTHER INVERTEBRATES 169

Andrew Swift

13. CONODONTS 183

Andrew Swift

14. FISH 191

Christopher J. Duffin

15. TETRAPODS 223

Glenn W. Storrs

16. TRACE FOSSILS 239

Andrew Swift and Christopher J. Duffin

17. PLANTS 251

Andrew Swift

References 257

Systematic Index 299

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Swift is presently Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Associate Director of the National Wind Institute at Texas Tech University, where his focus is on wind energy education and workforce development. His previous academic appointments include Director of the Wind Science and Engineering Research Center at Texas Tech and Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso.