Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Work-flows in applied palaeontology
- 2 Biostratigraphy and allied disciplines, and stratigraphic time-scales
- 3 Palaeobiology
- 4 Sequence stratigraphy
- 5 Petroleum geology
- 6 Mineral exploration and exploitation
- 7 Coal geology and mining
- 8 Engineering geology
- 9 Environmental science
- 10 Other applications and case studies
- References
- Index
3 - Palaeobiology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Work-flows in applied palaeontology
- 2 Biostratigraphy and allied disciplines, and stratigraphic time-scales
- 3 Palaeobiology
- 4 Sequence stratigraphy
- 5 Petroleum geology
- 6 Mineral exploration and exploitation
- 7 Coal geology and mining
- 8 Engineering geology
- 9 Environmental science
- 10 Other applications and case studies
- References
- Index
Summary
Palaeobiology involves the use of fossils in establishing the ordering of containing rocks in space and in relation to evolving earth environments. Readers interested in further details of the principles and practice of palaeobiology are referred to McKerrow (1978), Briggs and Crowther (1990), Behrensmeyer et al. (1992), Bosence and Allison (1995), Brenchley and Harper (1998), Briggs and Crowther (2001), Cohen (2003), Krassilov (2003), Jackson and Erwin (2006), Jones (2006), Cockell (2007), Foote and Miller (2007), Benton and Harper (2009) and Lieberman and Kaesler (2010).
SUMMARY OF PALAEOBIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND USEFULNESS OF PRINCIPAL FOSSIL GROUPS
The palaeobiological significance and usefulness of the principal fossil groups is discussed below, and in Sections 3.2–3.5 below, and summarised in Fig. 3.1 (modified after Jones, 2006; see also ‘Paleobiology Database’ or PBDB website, www.paleodb.org).
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- Applications of PalaeontologyTechniques and Case Studies, pp. 90 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011