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1 online resource (xxi, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Topics in geobiology ; v. 24 |
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Topics in geobiology ; v. 24.
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| Contents |
Geological setting and phytodiversity in Mexico / Sergio R.S. Cevallos-Ferriz and Enrique A. González-Torres -- Tertiary palynofloristic correlations between Mexican Formations with emphasis in dating the Balsas Group / Enrique Martínez-Hernández and Elia Ramírez-Arriaga -- Mesozoic corals of Mexico / Harry F. Filkorn -- Rudists of Mexico : historical aspects and selected areas of research / Pedro García-Barrera -- Mesozoic and Tertiary decapod Crustacea of Mexico / Francisco J. Vega, Torrey G. Nyborg and María del Carmen Perrilliat -- Cretaceous echinoids of Mexico / Itzia Nieto-López and Pedro García-Barrera -- Fossil ophiuroids of Mexico / Leonora Martín-Medrano and Pedro García-Barrera -- Fossil record of Upper Paleozoic marine invertebrates from Mexico / Sara A. Quiróz-Barroso and Francisco Sour-Tovar -- Mesozoic osteichthyans of Mexico / Jesús Alvarado-Ortega [and others] -- Research on fossil amphibians and reptiles in Mexico, from 1869 to early 2004 (including marine forms but excluding pterosaurs, dinosaurs, and obviously birds) / Víctor Hugo Reynoso -- A review of the dinosaurian record from Mexico / Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva, Rubén Rodríguez-de la Rosa and Jorge A. Ortiz-Mendieta -- Mexican fossil mammals, who, where and when? / Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros and Eduardo Jiménez-Hidalgo -- Revision of recent investigations in the Tlayúa Quarry / Shelton P. Applegate [and others] |
| Summary |
During the last few years, the number of contributions to the Paleontology of Mexico has increased considerably. Paleontological work in Mexico has been focused on providing important information for petroleum exploration and specific studies dealing with pollen, foraminifera, radiolaria, dinoflagellates, rudists, and ammonites. Often these reports were published only in local or regional journals and therefore not available to the scientific community at large. The purpose of this book is to offer an updated review of the fossil groups from Mexico, providing their significance to the stratigraphy, tectonics, sedimentology, evolution and paleontology of Mexico whose study has proved to be relevant in stratigraphy, tectonics, sedimentology, and evolution. The fossil record of Mexico ranges from Precambrian to Pleistocene. Almost every Mexican State has reported fossil localities with ongoing studies and potential for the discovery of new localities. Even those localities that have been studied since the eighteen-century, such as the early Cretaceous San Juan Raya, have recently reported new fossil groups. Unfortunately, much of the fossil reports from Mexico have been published in Spanish from local journals, which represent a language barrier to the international community. There is little doubt that the paleontological history of Mexico deserves to be known in other countries. By making this book available to the international scientific community we hope that interest in the fossil record of Mexico will grow |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
OhioLINK electronic book center |
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SpringerLink |
| Subject |
Paleontology -- Mexico
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Paleontology.
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Fossils.
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Paleontology
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Fossils
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paleontology.
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fossils.
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Paleontology -- Mexico.
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Fossils -- Mexico.
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Environnement.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Fossils
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Paleontology
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Mexico |
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Mexico
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vega, Francisco J
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| LC no. |
2007416629 |
| ISBN |
9781402039850 |
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1402039859 |
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1402038828 |
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9781402038822 |
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9786610716302 |
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6610716307 |
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