Invertebrate Paleontology

Book

• نوع عمل المنشور: Book
• مدينة النشر: Riyadh
• اسم الجهة الناشرة: King Saud University

مستخلص المنشور

This student book includes 14 chapters. All chapters begin with the objectives and end with questions that measure knowledge, understanding and mental and practical skills throughout the chapter. Most chapters include anatomy, morphology, classification, ecology and modes of life. Many of the bivalve, gastropod, scleractinain, echinoderm and bryozoan photos (without references) were done through field trips and research along the Red Sea coast for the first author. Chapter I discusses the requirements of fossilization, modes of fossil preservation, fossil record, index fossils and importance of fossils. Chapter II is concerned with the classification and nomenclature of living organisms from the following points of view: taxonomic levels, binomial nomenclature and nomenclature problems. Chapter III deals with morphology, structural grades, classification, fossilization and ecology and mode of life of phylum Porifera. Chapter IV discuses the morphology and classification of Phylum Cnidaria as well as distribution, types and ecological parameters of coral reefs. Chapters V and VI deal with the morphology and taxonomy of Phylum annelida and class Trilobita respectively. Chapters VII, VIII and IX deal with anatomy, morphology, classification, ecology and modes of life for classes gastropoda, cephalopoda and pelecypoda respectively. Chapter X discuses Phylum Brachiopoda from the following points of view: morphology, homomorphy, taxonomy and modes of life. Chapter XI deals with the zoarial morphology and growth-forms, classification and ecology of Phylum Bryozoa. Chapter XII discuses morphology, anatomy, taxonomy and modes of life of Phylum Echinodermata, while Chapters XIII and XIV deal with morphology and taxonomy of Class Graptolithina and trace fossils respectively.