British Fossil Brachiopoda
Thomas Davidson author Richard Owen editor William Benjamin Carpenter editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:24th Nov '11
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Published between 1850 and 1886, these six volumes by Thomas Davidson offered a definitive reference text on brachiopods.
Published between 1850 and 1886, this six-volume reference became the definitive reference on the brachiopods. It includes an essay by Richard Owen on the terebratulids, and separate guides to brachiopod shell structure and classification. The set also features more than two hundred hand-drawn plates and an extensive bibliography.British palaeontologist Thomas Davidson (1817–85) was born in Edinburgh and began his studies at the city's university. Encouraged by German palaeontologist Leopold von Buch, he began to study brachiopod fossils at the age of twenty, and he quickly became the undisputed authority. He was elected fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1852, receiving the Wollaston medal in 1865. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857. Published between 1850 and 1886, this six-volume work became the definitive reference text on the subject. It includes more than two hundred hand-drawn plates and a comprehensive bibliography. This volume, the third of six, details the Devonian and Silurian brachiopod species, and features an essay by Roderick Impey Murchison on the classification of Silurian rocks.
ISBN: 9781108038195
Dimensions: 297mm x 210mm x 35mm
Weight: 1600g
680 pages