: Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region
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\ David L. Meyer and Richard Arnold Davis ; with a chapter by Steven M. Holland.
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Bloomington :
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: Indiana University Press,
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, c2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xv, 346 p., [15] p. of plates
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:ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
SERIES
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Life of the past
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CONTENTS NOTE
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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.