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Author Poinar, George O., author.

Title The evolutionary history of nematodes : as revealed in stone, amber and mummies / George O. Poinar, Jr
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011
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Description 1 online resource
Series Nematology monographs and perspectives ; v. 9
Nematology monographs and perspectives ; v. 9.
Contents Types of preservation -- Systematic treatment of fossil nematodes -- Nematodes from the Precambrian -- Nematodes from the Palaeozoic -- Nematodes from the Mesozoic -- Nematodes from the Tertiary -- Nematodes from Pleistocene and Holocene deposits -- Human parasites from Pleistocene and Holocene remains -- Dubious nematode fossils -- Nematode artefacts -- Nematode time lines -- Functional morphology and the behaviour of fossil nematodes
Summary This book establishes a solid base in palaeonematology with descriptions of 66 new fossil species and accounts of all previous fossil and subfossil nematodes from sedimentary deposits, coprolites, amber and mummies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-393) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Brill, viewed February 17, 2021)
Subject Nematodes -- Evolution
Worms, Fossil.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Invertebrates.
Nematodes -- Evolution.
Worms, Fossil.
Form Electronic book
Author Brill Academic Publishers.
LC no. 2011001567
ISBN 9789047428664
9047428668