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Contents
Introduction | 5 |
The Record of Life in the Rocks | 16 |
Preparation of Specimens | 24 |
Phylum Porifera | 30 |
Phylum Brachiopoda | 36 |
Phylum Arthropoda | 44 |
Common terms and phrases
abundant ammonoids animals appearance areas arrangement attached beds body bones brachiopods Bryozoa Burlington calcareous called Cambrian cephalopods changes Class close coal coiled collector colony column commonly composed consists contain coral County Cretaceous crinoid Devonian divided early existed extends fairly common feet Figure fish formation forms fossil record fragments gastropod genus geologic hinge illustrated important impressions includes individual internal invertebrates known land large numbers layers leaves limestone living localities lower Magnified mammals marine material means middle Mississippian Missouri mold Natural Natural size occur opening Ordovician organism original Paleozoic pedicle pelecypods Pennsylvanian period PHYLUM places plants Plate Pleistocene present preserved primitive range recent remains represented reptiles resemble River rocks sandstone septa shale shape shell showing Silurian similar skeleton Sketch soft species specimen sponges stem tree trilobites types typical valve vertebrates views widely worms yielded
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Common Fossils of Missouri Issue 10 of Arts and science series, University of Missouri Missouri Heritage Readers Series Issue 4 of Missouri handbook, University of Missouri Volume 4 of University of Missouri College of Arts and Science Handbook Volume 56, Issue 40 of University of Missouri bulletin Issue 10 of University of Missouri bulletin: Arts and science series |
| Authors | A. G. Unklesbay, Athel Glyde Unklesbay |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | University of Missouri Press, 1955 |
| ISBN | 0826205887, 9780826205889 |
| Length | 98 pages |
| Subjects | › Nature / Fossils Science / Paleontology |
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