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Palaeontology has developed from a descriptive science to an analytical science used to interpret relationships between earth and life history. This book highlights its key role in the study of the evolving earth, life history and environmental processes. After an introduction to fossils and their classification, each of the principal fossil groups are studied in detail, covering their biology, morphology, classification, palaeobiology and biostratigraphy. The latter sections focus on the applications of fossils in the interpretation of earth and life processes and environments.
This paper provides new data on the succession of acritarch assemblages, and some information on that of chitinozoans, in warm, mainly shallow, water, marine carbonate deposits of the Canadian cratonic realm. The work is based on the well-exposed, almost continuous, unfaulted section at Wilcox Pass, located about 2.5 km north of the Athabasca Glacier, between Banff and Jasper, in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains.
"In this report the author describes 53 species of acritarchs distributed among 24 genera. In addition to providing data useful for stratigraphic correlation of marine and nonmarine sequences, the current study provides the first account of acritarch suites from a Lower to Middle Devonian sequence in North America." --
This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and brief explanatory texts. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction, and goes on to describe the respective organism’s morphology in detail through numerous illustrations. This is followed by a brief note on its classification, and concludes with illustrated examples of stratigraphically important organisms through time with their major distinguishing characteristics. Featuring over 2500 clearly labelled, hand-drawn and classroom-friendly illustrations, the book offers a fundamental resource for budding palaeontologists, petroleum geologists and palaeobiologists.