Invertebrate Palaeontology and EvolutionInvertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution is well established as the foremost palaeontology text at the undergraduate level. This fully revised fourth edition includes a complete update of the sections on evolution and the fossil record, and the evolution of the early metazoans.
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adapted ambulacra ammonites ammonoids animals aperture appendages arthropods assemblages bivalves brachial valve brachiopods bryozoans Burgess Shale burrowing calcareous calcite Cambrian Carboniferous cavity cephalon cephalopods coiled colony corallites corals Cretaceous crinoids Devonian diversity dorsal early echinoderms echinoids ecology environment evolution evolutionary extinct fauna Figure fossil record function gastropods genera genes genus Geological Society gills graptolites graptoloids groups growth habitat hinge Invertebrate Paleontology Jurassic kinds known later layer Lethaia living London lophophore Lower mantle marine Mesozoic modern molluscs morphology muscle Nautilus normally ORDER Ordovician organisms origin pair Palaeontology Palaeozoic pattern pedicle pedicle valve Permian plates pore posterior preserved radial Redrawn reef rhabdosome Rugosa sea floor sediment segments septa shell showing Silurian siphuncle skeleton species specimens spicules spines sponges stratigraphical stromatoporoids structure Subclass SUBORDER surface suture taxonomic thecae tion tissue trace fossils Treatise on Invertebrate trilobites tube feet types Upper ventral vertical zone zooids