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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morris, John 1810-1886
Other Authors: Lycett, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015
Series:Cambridge library collection. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society
Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316143469
Summary:The Bathonian Great Oolite Group is a fossiliferous series of calcareous and argillaceous rocks that are only rarely oolitic in composition. Based upon the collection of physician John Lycett (1804-82), made in quarries on Minchinhampton Common in the Cotswolds, this monograph, written in collaboration with the geologist John Morris (1810-86), covers only that part of the Great Oolite found in this location. However, it also includes species found on the coast of Yorkshire, near Scarborough, which would be included in the Inferior Oolite. The significance of this work is that it is one of just a handful of monographs describing and illustrating the British Jurassic gastropod and bivalve fauna. Having received no significant revision since the late 1940s, it remains a key reference point for Jurassic molluscs. Volume 1 comprises three parts published between 1850 and 1854, covering cephalopods, gastropods and worms as well as bivalves.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9781316143469