Место издания:Paleontological Institute The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
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1223 страниц
ISBN:978-0-9903621-2-8
Монография
Аннотация:Volumes 4 and 5 covers hypercalcified sponges. After a chapter on living members, the treatise then focuses on fossil archaeociaths and allied extinct groups, hypercalcified chaetetid-, sphinctozoan-, and stromatoporoid-type Porifera (Demospongiae and Calcarea), treating their external and internal morphology, microstructure and mineralogy, morphologic affinities to other fossil and recent groups, functional morphology of the skeleton, evolution, diversity trends, extinction patterns, biostratigraphy, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography, techniques of study, classification, and biostratigraphy. This is followed by a lengthy section describing all known classes, orders, families, and genera.