More than an exhibition catalogue (though it is the companion to a travelling museum show), this volume explores the history of pearls, both as natural and manmade gems and as social currency. Includes more than 200 illustrations
This book brings together an international group of scientists focusing on present-day and fossil cephalopods, ranging broadly from Paleozoic ammonoids to today's octopods. It has three general sections dealing with: systematics and evolution; descriptions of hard- and soft part morphology; and ecology, biogeography, and taphonomy. Several ...
In this work, renowned researchers summarize the current knowledge on ammonoid paleobiology. This book begins with a description of the systematic position of the Ammonoidea within the Cephalopoda, providing the phylogenetic framework for the rest of this book. Following discussions include soft- and hard-part morphology of ammonoids, rate of ...
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