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Fossil nonmarine ostracoda of the United States
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Developments in palaeontology and stratigraphy
Publication Information:
New York ; Elsevier, 1999
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9780444500892
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Hardbound. The geographic and stratigraphic distribution of fossil nonmarine Ostracoda in the United States are summarized in this book, followed by diagnoses of the subject species, references to literature and 34 plates of illustrations.This work shows the great diversity and usefulness of this interesting class of organisms which are small bivalved aquatic crustaceans that occupy both marine and nonmarine environments. Many are characteristic of estuarine and other tidal habitats, but only a few occupy hypersaline waters. One or two kinds are found in wet soils, or in leaf or flower cups in tropical rain forests. A few live in caves and others are commensal in gills of fish and other aquatic animals. Micropaleontologists have found their shells in many types of sedimentary rocks and have used them for stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental interpretations.Their relatively rapid rates of evolution have made them useful in subsurface stratigraphy


Table of Contents

Chapter and section headings
Preface
Introduction
Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleozoic Non-Marine Ostracoda
Devonian
Mississippian
Pennsylvanian
Permian
Stratigraphic Distribution of Mesozoic Non-Marine Ostracoda
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleogene Non-Marine Ostracoda
Paleocene
Eocene
Oligocene
Stratigraphic Distribution of Neogene Pre-Holocene Non-Marine Ostracoda
Miocene
Pliocene
Pleistocene
Suprageneric Classification of Fossil Nonmarine Ostracoda in the USA
Systematic Paleontology of Fossil Non-Marine Ostracoda
References
Plates 1-34
Appendix A Features of Nonmarine Ostracoda Animal and Shell
Appendix B Range Charts of Significant Species
Index to Species Illustrated on Plates
Index to Stratigraphic Units