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Title: Chinese Fossil Vertebrates by Spencer G. Lucas ISBN: 0-231-08482-X Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $78.00 |
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Summary: Chinese Fossil Vertebrates
Comment: Chinese Fossil Vertebrates written by Spencer G. Lucas is a well-written book that covers what we know of the history of Vertebrate Paleontological Studies.
China is the world's third largest nation. Its vast land area contains extensive exposures of sedimentary rocks, many of nonmarine origin. Serious scientific study of China's vertebrate fossil record began in the last century. This record extends back to the Early Cambrian, nearly 550 million years. Today, Chinese vertebrate fossils represent one of the most extensive and important records of vertebrate evolution.
China has a very complex geology that encompasses great thickness of sedimentary rock of Phanerozoic age. Equally complex is the plate tectonic history of China prior to the late Mesozoic. Most workers recognize that during the Paleozoic and much of the Mesooic, what is now Chinaa belonged to several microplates. South China encompasses the region south of the Qinling fold belt. North China is north of the Qinling fold belt, extending east of the Qilian Mountains.
This book employs concepts of vertebrate biochronology... the use of fossil vertebrates to discriminate intervals of geologic time... earlier advocated by Lucas. The Basic unit of vertebrate biochronology is the biochron. A Biochron is simply as interval of geologic time that corresponds to the duration of a taxon. Each vertebrate taxon has a corresponding biochron.
This book is divided according to time:
Cambrian-Ordovician
Silurian
Devonian
Carboniferous
Pernian
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Miocene-Pilocene
Pleistocene
Each of these times represents a chapter in this book and each chapter is sub-divided as the vertebrate producing strata yeild its species via the biochron.
This is a scientific book and not a childrens book. There is a lot of information and nearly two decades of research experience within these pages. The text moves as the narrative is written in understandable language and you get a "feel" as to what it is like digging for vertebrate fossils... comparative analysis plays and important part in this book. All in all, this is an excellent text and fills a gap in the knowledge base of the times covered.
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Title: Exceptional Fossil Preservation by David J. Bottjer, Walter Etter, James W. Hagadorn, Carol M. Tang ISBN: 0231102550 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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