British Fossil Brachiopoda

Thomas Davidson author Richard Owen editor William Benjamin Carpenter editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:2nd Feb '12

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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 fifth of six, is the second of two supplements providing corrections to earlier volumes and detailing species discovered since the original volumes were published. It also features a general summary as well as a catalogue and index of British brachiopod species.

ISBN: 9781108038218

Dimensions: 297mm x 210mm x 27mm

Weight: 1250g

528 pages