Overview
- This reprint of a classic book features a new introductory section summarizing all work on Nautilus since 1987
- Includes impressive color plates, including an impressive image showing the first hatched Nautilus in captivity
- Will be relevant to the fields of marine biology, evolutionary biology and paleontology
- Contains annotated Bibliography and References Published since the first edition
Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology (TGBI, volume 6)
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Nautilus Studies—The First Twenty-Two Centuries
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The Ancestry of the Genus Nautilus
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Nautilus and Its Distribution
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Physiology
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
W. Bruce Saunders is Professor, Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College. He has studied Nautilus for over 30 years, including field work in the Indo-Pacific, especially Palau and Papua New Guinea. He has worked on the ecology, habitat, and life history of Nautilus, and discovered the first living populations of Allonautilus scrobiculatus.
Neil H. Landman is Curator, Division of Paleontology (Invertebrates), American Museum of Natural History. He is an expert on shelled cephalopods including Nautilus and ammonites and the co-editor of the books Cephalopods Present and Past—New Insights and Fresh Perspectives (2007), and Ammonite Paleobiology (1996), both published by Springer.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nautilus
Book Subtitle: The Biology and Paleobiology of a Living Fossil, Reprint with additions
Editors: W. Bruce Saunders, Neil H. Landman
Series Title: Topics in Geobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3299-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3298-0Published: 16 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0448-7Published: 14 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3299-7Published: 17 December 2009
Series ISSN: 0275-0120
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: LXXVIII, 632
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Paleontology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Earth Sciences, general