Chapter 2 The Palaeozoic larger benthic foraminifera: the Carboniferous and Permian

Pages: 39 - 118
Published: Jan 1, 2008
Abstract
The first foraminifera fossils with a hard shell to appear in the fossil record are the unilocular, simple agglutinated Allogromiina. The lagenine foraminifera (with walls made of orientated calcite crystals) evolved in the Silurian, but did not show significant evolutionary diversity until the Moscovian–Kasimovian interval in the Carboniferous. chapter discusses the only truly large Palaeozoic foraminifera, the suborder Fusulinina. Members of...
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Title
Chapter 2 The Palaeozoic larger benthic foraminifera: the Carboniferous and Permian
Published Date
Jan 1, 2008
Pages
39 - 118
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