Fossil prokaryotes and protists

Author(s)

• Lipps, Jere H.

Bibliographic Information

Fossil prokaryotes and protists

edited by Jere H. Lipps

Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1993

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This reference to fossil unicellular systems is a companion volume to Boardman's "Fossil Prokaryotes" which covers multi-cellular organisms. The first four chapters cover general aspects of fossil unicellular organisms including the origins of life, problems peculiar to single-cell fossils, applications to geological problems, the evolutionary history of prokaryotes and protists and their role in influencing earth history. The remanining chapters each describe, in detail, a major group of unicellular organisms. Chapters adopt a uniform structure giving history of study, morphology and systematics, biology, paleobiology, biostratigraphy, evolutionary history and supplementary reading.

Table of Contents

• Fossil prokaryotes and protists
• the origin of life
• Prokaryotes
• Dinoflagellates
• Acritarchs
• Ebridians
• Silicoflagellates
• Calcareous nannofossils
• Diatoms
• Foraminifera
• Radiolaria
• Tintinneds
• biostratigraphy
• evolutionary history of Prokaryotes and Protists. Appendix: Methods in micropaleontology.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA19966213
• ISBN:
  • 0865420734
• LCCN: 92008875
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boston
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 342 p.
• Size: 28 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QE719.5
  • DC20 : 560
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Prokaryotes, Fossil
  • LCSH : Protista, Fossil