Overview
- Unifies an array of diverse topics in geobiology through the shared approach of using the present as the key to the past
- Tackles intriguing paleontological questions through creative, tangible, real-world experiments with modern analogous organisms and environments
- Represents advances in multiple paleontological and sedimentological fields and provides those familiar with the subject with new results and unique perspectives
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology (TGBI, volume 41)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Organism-Substrate Interaction
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Reviews
“The volume edited by Hembree et al. is a must read to specialists in experimental palaeontology. lt is also recommended strongly to professional palaeobiologists and ichnologists. Researchers in fossil arthropods, bivalves, crinoids, mammals, and some other creatures will find much useful there, too. Finally, some geochemists and sedimentologists have to pay attention to this book.” (Dmitry A. Ruban, Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Vol. 2016 (3-4), December, 2016)
“This edited volume consists of 17 chapters organized into three parts: functional morphology, taphonomy and environment, and organism-substrate interaction. … This volume will be of particular use for graduate students and those teaching graduate-level methods courses, where one can examine and compare numerous experimental designs and analytical techniques. … there is much to recommend in this comprehensive and well-written volume for the student and professional paleobiologist … .” (Christopher R. Noto, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 91 (3), September, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Daniel I. Hembree, Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University; PhD University of Kansas 2005.
Brian F. Platt, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, University of Mississippi; PhD University of Kansas 2012.
Jon J. Smith, Assistant Scientist, Stratigraphic Research Group, Kansas Geological Survey; PhD University of Kansas 2007.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms
Book Subtitle: Lessons from the Living
Editors: Daniel I. Hembree, Brian F. Platt, Jon J. Smith
Series Title: Topics in Geobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8721-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8720-8Published: 14 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0325-1Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8721-5Published: 29 April 2014
Series ISSN: 0275-0120
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 420
Number of Illustrations: 85 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Paleontology, Biogeosciences, Zoology