Principles of Benthic Marine PaleoecologyAcademic Press, 1981 - Broj stranica: 463 This book deals with the paleoecology of the shallow -water marine environment, emphasizing those aspects of both ecology and paleoecology considered to be useful for reconstructing the continental shelf, shallow water environments richly represented in the fossil record. |
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Variables of the Paleoenvironment | 25 |
Communities and Their Characteristics | 177 |
Percentage of Organisms with Preservable Hard Parts | 183 |
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abundance algae animals associated barnacles beach beds behavior benthic Benthic Assemblage benthos biological biota biotic bioturbation bivalves Bogue Sound boreholes Boring in Crassostrea bottom Boucot brachiopods brackish bryozoans burrow Cambrian carbonate changes complex Copyright coral correlation crabs Crassostrea virginica Gmelin Cretaceous crinoid debris deposit feeders depth Devonian discussed distribution echinoids ecologic ecologist environmental epifaunal evidence example factors fauna feeding Figure fish fossil record gastropods Geol geologic groups growth indicate infaunal intertidal invertebrates level-bottom material ment mixed layer munities nutrient observed occur oncolites organisms oxygen oysters paleontologist Paleozoic pedicle percentage photic zone physical polychaete predation present preserved prey reef region relations relatively rock salinity sample sand sediment sedimentary shallow shelf shells snails species specimens structure substrate subtidal suggests surface Table taxa taxic diversity temperature tidal tion trace fossils transect transport tropical turbulent USNM valve variables vironments zone