Collector's guide to Fort Payne crinoids and blastoids / William W. Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, W. W. (William Wilson), 1906-1994, author.

Series:

Life of the past.

Life of the past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crinoidea, Fossil--Kentucky.

Crinoidea, Fossil.

Kentucky.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Indiana University Press : Bloomington, Indiana, [2021]

Summary:

"Collector's Guide to Fort Payne Crinoids and Blastoids is the first comprehensive guide for identifying the fossils of echinoderms from hundreds of millions of years ago, when North America was covered by a warm, equatorial sea. Crinoids and blastoids, echinoderms (the same family of marine animals to include starfish, sea urchins, and sand dollars) from the Fort Payne Formation in Kentucky, are rarely seen at gem, mineral, and fossil shows, nor are they regularly displayed at major museums. By combining high-quality color photographs and an accompanying descriptive text, William W. Morgan provides the first comprehensive identification guide to these fascinating fossils. Collector's Guide to Fort Payne Crinoids and Blastoids features photographs, often offering more than one view, of the best-quality specimens curated in the Smithsonian and other prominent invertebrate fossil museums. Morgan includes photographs that are unlabeled so that readers can test themselves to see whether they can differentiate some of the more subtle features that may be necessary for accurate identification"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Mississippian Period

1. Geologic History and Morphology of Paleozoic Crinoids

Brief Geologic History

Background

Morphology

Postmortem Preservation

Paleobiology of Crinoids

2. Classi˛cation of Paleozoic Crinoids

Subclass Camerata

Subclass Pentacrinoidea

3. Early Mississippian Deposits

Hampton Formation

Burlington Limestone

Gilmore City Formation

Keokuk Limestone

Edwardsville Formation

Fort Payne Formation

4. Fort Payne Crinoids-Class-Crinoidea

5. Fort Payne Blastoids-Class-Blastoidea

Classification

Family Neoschismatidae

Family Granatocrinidae

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253058249

0253058244

OCLC:

1259294712