Cenozoic Seas: The View From Eastern North America
Editorial Reviews
Review
In this very interesting and different kind of academic book, Petuch … has generated a paleogeographic world of the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coastal Plain … . … [L]ibraries that cover systematic zoology will probably need to acquire this book.
- CHOICE
Ed Petuch's latest book will be welcomed by many loyal fossil collectors, is necessary for serious researchers dealing with Western Atlantic gastropod groups, and is of interest to students of evolution, ecology, stratigraphy and oceanography. … It will help collectors understand their shells as living organisms … [and] put their shells in a framework of time and space … . The photography in this book is very good … . … [O]verall this book succeeds in its basic premise: to divide the east coast malacofaunas into communities … .
- American Conchologist
Book Description
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 US. 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.
Cenozoic Seas: The View From Eastern North America
Cenozoic Seas: The View From Eastern North America,Edward J. Petuch,CRC,0849316324,Atlantic Coast (North America),Cenozoic,Life Sciences - Biology - Marine Biology,Life Sciences - General,Paleoceanography,Paleoecology,Paleontology,Science,Science/Mathematics,Ancient World,North America,Oceanography (seas),Oceans & seas,Palaeontology,Science / Marine Biology
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