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020 _a9781139680868 (ebook)
020 _z9781108076951 (paperback)
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050 4 _aQE851
_b.W66 1902
082 0 4 _a567
_223
100 1 _aWoodward, Arthur Smith,
_d1864-1944,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Fossil Fishes of the English Chalk /
_cArthur Smith Woodward.
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1902.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (viii, 265 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society
500 _aIncludes index.
520 _aThe Chalk Group of southern and eastern England preserves a rich marine fauna of Late Cretaceous age. In this work, first published in seven parts between 1902 and 1912, Arthur Smith Woodward (1864-1944) provides what remains the principal account of fossil fishes from these deposits. Woodward describes and illustrates over fifty genera of ray-finned, lobe-finned, and cartilaginous fishes. The three-dimensional preservation of some Chalk fishes allows Woodward to describe aspects of anatomy not visible in heavily compressed fossils of similar age from other localities. Woodward finds that the fine detail apparent in bony fish skulls from the Chalk provides evidence of a closer correspondence between Cretaceous species and their modern relatives than had previously been anticipated. This monograph represents one of Woodward's last truly monumental contributions on fossil fishes, and was completed at around the time his scientific attention became increasingly dedicated to the now infamous Piltdown Man.
650 0 _aFishes, Fossil.
650 0 _aPaleontology
_yCretaceous.
650 0 _aPaleontology
_zEngland.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108076951
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pMonographs of the Palaeontographical Society.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139680868
999 _c514670
_d514668