Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms Lessons from the Living /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hembree, Daniel I. (Editor), Platt, Brian F. (Editor), Smith, Jon J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Topics in Geobiology, 41
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Paleontology.; Geobiology.; Zoology.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.

Paleontologists and geologists struggle with research questions often complicated by the loss or even absence of key paleobiological and paleoenvironmental information. Insight into this missing data can be gained through direct exploration of analogous living organisms and modern environments. Crea...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Functional Morphology
• Part II Taphonomy and Environment
• Part III Organism-Substrate Interaction.