Overview
- Includes detailed illustrations and concise explanatory texts
- Details morphological characters
- Features over 3000 hand-drawn and clearly labelled diagrams
- Offers abundant examples of each morphological character explained
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Geology (SPRINGERGEOL)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and concise texts explaining each entry. The book details the morphological characters of each organism, providing fundamental information for palaeontologists and palaeobiologists alike. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction and goes on to describe the organism’s morphology in detail, followed by a brief note on classification and lastly illustrated examples of stratigraphically important organisms through time along with their major distinguishing characters. The book includes over 3000 clearly labelled, hand-drawn and classroom-friendly illustrations of over 1200 species.
Reviews
“Jain’s book will be very good companion to professional geologists and palaeontologists needing advice on any general or particular issue … students in palaeontology and their teachers, and amateurs trying to identify common fossils and wishing to extend their knowledge. … this volume is a treasure for all who are interested in the ‘classical’ palaeontology and stratigraphy … .” (Dmitry A. Ruban, Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Issue 3-6, 2017)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Sreepat Jain is a professor at the Department of Geology, Adama University, Ethiopia He has 16 years of teaching and over two and a half decades of research experience, and has also established a new Petroleum Engineering department. He has two doctorates, one from India and the other from United States, and was also awarded the “TA Excellence in Teaching” for meritorious teaching in the United States. Prof. Jain has also received The Paleontological Society of India’s prestigious “Prof. S. K. Singh Memorial Gold Medal” for best paper and the DST-DAAD Fellowship. His areas of integrated research include Jurassic ammonites and nannofossils, Jurassic to recent foraminifers, and the use of biotic and abiotic proxies for deciphering paleoenvironments. He has published several research articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals and has authored two books of which The Fundamental of Physical Geology (Springer) has been recommended for Undergraduate Earth Science semester courses at several American universities. Prof. Jain is also a reviewer for several national and international geoscience journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology
Book Subtitle: Macrofossils
Authors: Sreepat Jain
Series Title: Springer Geology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3658-0
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3656-6Published: 15 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3880-5Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-3658-0Published: 30 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2197-9545
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9553
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 405
Number of Illustrations: 209 b/w illustrations
Topics: Paleontology, Economic Geology