Brachiopods

Brachiopods
Author: Paul Copper
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2018-02-02
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1351463098

This collection of conference papers presents information on the molecular genetics, biomineralization, growth and ecology of extant brachiopod stocks (extrapolated back to the Cambrian), and the shell microstructure, taphonomy, paleogeography, evolution, and taxonomy of fossil brachiopods.

Brachiopods

Brachiopods
Author: Howard Brunton
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2001-11-29
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1135731446

The growth history of a brachiopod is entombed in its shell, but research on fossil and living brachiopods has generated unanswered questions about these marine invertebrates. Several contributors to Brachiopods Past and Present comment on their differing structures and morphological detail. They use these as examples of ontogenetic and evolutionar