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