Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology: Macrofossils [Hardcover]

This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and concise texts explaining each entry. The book details the morphological characters of each organism, providing fundamental information for palaeontologists and palaeobiologists alike. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction and goes on to describe the organisms morphology in detail, followed by a brief note on classification and lastly illustrated examples of stratigraphically important organisms through time along with their major distinguishing characters. The book includes over 3000 clearly labelled, hand-drawn and classroom-friendly illustrations of over 1200 species.

Life through ages: an overview.- Sponges.- Class Cephalopoda.- Pelecypods.- Trilobites.- Echinoids .- Graptolites.- Brachiopods.- Class Gastropoda.- Corals.

Jains book will be very good companion to professional geologists and palaeontologists needing advice on any general or particular issue & students in palaeontology and their teachers, and amateurs trying to identify common fossils and wishing to extend their knowledge. & this volume is a treasure for all who are interested in the classical palaeontology and stratigraphy & . (Dmitry A. Ruban, Zentralblatt f?r Geologie und Pal?ontologie, Issue 3-6, 2017)

Dr. Sreepat Jain is a professor at the Department of Geology, Adama University, Ethiopia He has 16 years of teachls4