: Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region
\ David L. Meyer and Richard Arnold Davis ; with a chapter by Steven M. Holland.
Bloomington :
: Indiana University Press,
, c2009.
xv, 346 p., [15] p. of plates
:ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
Life of the past
Index
Bibliography
Introduction -- Science in the Hinterland : the Cincinnati School of Paleontology -- Naming and classifying organisms -- Rocks, fossils, and time -- Algae : the base of the food chain -- Poriferans and Cnidarians : sponges, corals, and jellyfish -- Bryozoans : "twigs" and "bones" -- Brachiopods : the other bivalves -- Molluscs : hard, but with a soft center -- Annelids and worm-like fossils -- Arthropods : trilobites and other legged creatures -- Echinoderms : a world unto themselves -- Graptolites and conodonts : our closest relatives? -- Type-cincinnatian trace fossils : tracks, trails, and burrows -- Paleogeography and paleoenvironment / by Steven M. Holland -- Life in the Cincinnatian sea -- Diving in the Cincinnatian sea.