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"In the last twenty years or so there has been an upsurge in the study of Palaeozoic fishes for solving geological problems, both in areas of biostratigraphy and biogeography. This has resulted in an explosion of data, much of it so new that it will take years for all the recent discoveries to be published. This book has resulted to fill the need to provide up-to-date summaries of global work in progress showing the application of both macroscopic and microscopic remains of Palaeozoic vertebrates to geological correlations, and to refinement of global palaeogeographic reconstructions."--from the Preface.
This book offers the first detailed treatment of palaeozoic vertebrates for use in correlations and in biogeographic studies. With thirteen chapters of systematic analysis of biostratigraphic and biogeographic data, it includes invaluable summaries of current research as well as new and significant contributions to the fields of geology and evolutionary biology. With charts and figures that show many of the important fossils discussed in the text, as well as stratigraphic, location, and taxonomic indexes, the book will interest palaeontologists, stratigraphers, and other earth scientists concerned with the early history of life on earth.
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| List of contributors | ||
| Preface | ||
| Ch. 1 | Morphological characteristics of Palaeozoic vertebrates used in biostratigraphy | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Palaeozoic global reconstructions | 25 |
| Ch. 3 | Early-Middle Palaeozoic vertebrate extinction events | 54 |
| Ch. 4 | The Silurian-Devonian agnathan biostratigraphy of the Old Red Continent | 67 |
| Ch. 5 | Silurian-Devonian vertebrate biostratigraphy of Siberia and neighbouring terranes | 87 |
| Ch. 6 | Biostratigraphy of the Silurian and Devonian gnathostomes of the Euramerica Province | 104 |
| Ch. 7 | Silurian-Devonian vertebrate biostratigraphy of Western Gondwana and related terranes (South America, Africa, Armorica-Bohemia, Middle East) | 139 |
| Ch. 8 | Palaeozoic microvertebrate biostratigraphy of Eastern Gondwana | 174 |
| Ch. 9 | Middle Palaeozoic macrovertebrate biostratigraphy of Eastern Gondwana | 208 |
| Ch. 10 | Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Middle Palaeozoic of China | 252 |
| Ch. 11 | Palaeozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South-East Asia and Japan | 277 |
| Ch. 12 | Vertebrate faunal provinces in the Middle Palaeozoic | 293 |
| Ch. 13 | Biogeography of Palaeozoic tetrapods | 324 |
| Systematic index | 354 | |
| Stratigraphic and locality index | 364 |
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"In the last twenty years or so there has been an upsurge in the study of Palaeozoic fishes for solving geological problems, both in areas of biostratigraphy and biogeography. This has resulted in an explosion of data, much of it so new that it will take years for all the recent discoveries to be published. This book has resulted to fill the need to provide up-to-date summaries of global work in progress showing the application of both macroscopic and microscopic remains of Palaeozoic vertebrates to geological correlations, and to refinement of