Overview
- Presents the most recent and up-to-date taxonomic re-assessment of fundamental and very common larger foraminiferal species occurring in Paleogene shallow water successions
- Includes superb illustrations making the book a reference in the field (hand- and laboratory manual)
- Contains unpublished data and illustrations
- Written by a leading scientist in the field-L Hottinger, both from a systematic and applied side, describing most recent advances
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Rotaliid Foraminifera
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Systematic Palaeontology: Family Rotaliidae
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a representative assessment of the state of the art of research on Paleogene rotaliid larger foraminifera. It gives an overview of the current understanding of systematics of this group and, in particular, of its biostratigraphic importance and palaeobiogeography. The senior author of the work, late Professor Hottinger, a leading scientist in the field, both from a systematic and applied side, presents in this book his most recent advances.
The foraminiferal family Rotaliidae is a traditional group used frequently which plays an important role for petroleum exploration in the biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography of Paleogene shallow water deposits in the Middle East. This book aims to introduce rotaliid representatives as index fossils that can be recognized in random thin-sections of cemented rocks.
The book is generously illustrated with an unprecedented degree of accuracy. The selection of taxa is restricted to forms having lived in the Paleocene and the Eocene, where their biostratigraphic significance is much higher than during later epochs. However, some additional rotaliid taxa, from the Late Cretaceous or that do not belong to the family Rotaliidae sensu stricto, are included in this book in order to demonstrate particular roots of rotaliid phylogenetic lineages in the previous community maturation cycle or to delimit the taxon Rotaliidae with more precision. This book can be considered as a reference in the field.
Authors, Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Paleogene larger rotaliid foraminifera from the western and central Neotethys
Authors: Lukas Hottinger
Editors: Davide Bassi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02853-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02852-1Published: 22 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34948-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02853-8Published: 11 September 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 196
Number of Illustrations: 113 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Paleontology, Biogeosciences, Economic Geology, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture)