Cenozoic Seas: The View From Eastern North America
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>The rich fossil record of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the United States is a gold mine for interested scientists. The last thirty million years of Earth history are superbly chronicled by a succession of fossil assemblages extending from the St. Lawrence River to Florida. Marine scientists, paleontologists, and systematic biologists alike need a thorough guide to interpret this history.
Cenozoic Seas: The View from Eastern North America analyzes the changing geography, the arrival and departures of ecosystems and species, and the affect of climate on living things. The author classifies all of the region's fossil-bearing formations and their contents within a logical, descriptive framework of space and time, providing a clear path for those studying evolution and extinction within specific communities of organisms.
The book is also an excellent field guide for fossil collectors, providing detailed information for all species illustrated. Many organisms have never before been illustrated in a book on fossil shells.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
PALEOSEAS OF CENOZOIC EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
Geochronology and Geography of the Eastern American Paleoseas
The Choctaw Sea
The Okeechobean Sea
The Raritan Sea
The Salisbury Sea
The Albemarle Sea
The Charlston Sea
Deposition within the Eastern North American Paleoseas
BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE EASTERN AMERICAN PALEOSEAS
Marine Province of Rupelian to Earliest Chattian Oligocene Time
The Proto-Transmarian Province
The Antiguan Province
The Pernambucan Province
Marine Provinces of Latest Chattian Oligocene to late Tortonian Miocene Time
The Transmarian Province
The Baitoan Province
The Platensian Province
Marine Provinces of Late Tortonian Miocene to Calabrian Pleistocene Time
The Caloosahatchian Province
The Gatunian Province
The Camachoan Province
Marine Provinces of Early Pleistocene to Recent Time
The Carolinian Province
The Caribbean Province
The Brazilian Province
OLIGOCENE AND EARLIEST MIOCENE SEAS
Communities and Environments of the Bainbridge Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Silverdale Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Tampa Subsea
EARLY MIOCENE SEAS
Communities and Environments of the Chipola Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Calvert Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Pamlico Subsea
MIDDLE AND LATE MIOCENE SEAS
Communities and Environments of the Patuxent Subsea
Communities and Environments of the St. Mary's Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Rappahannock Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Walton Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Alaqua Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Polk Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Charlotte Subsea
EARLY AND LATE PLIOCENE SEAS
Communities and Environments of the Williamsburg Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Murdock Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Santee Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Yorktown Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Duplin Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Jackson Subsea
THE EVERGLADES PSEUDOATOLL
The Early Piacenzian Communities of the Everglades Pseudoatoll
The Middle Piacenzian Communities of the Everglades Pseudoatoll
The Late Piacenzian Communities of the Everglades Pseudoatoll
LATEST PLIOCENE AND EARLIEST PLEISTOCENE SEAS
Communities and Environments of the Croatan Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Waccamaw Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Nashua Lagoon System
Communities and Environments of the Caloosahatchee Subsea
EARLY AND LATE PLEISTOCENE SEAS
Communities and Environments of the Loxahatchee Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Belle Glade Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Socastee Lagoon System
Communities and Environments of the Lake Worth Subsea
Communities and Environments of the Champlain Sea
BIOTIC PATTERNS IN TIME AND SPACE
Patterns of Extinction in the Eastern North American Paleoseas
The Suwannean Extinction
The Chipolan Extinction
The Transmarian Extinction
The Caloosahatchian Extinction
The Evergladesian Extinction
Geographical Heterochrony in Eastern North America
SYSTEMATIC APPENDIX
Descriptions of New Index Species and Genera
INDEX
Editorial Reviews
"In this very interesting and different kind of academic book, Petuch … has generated a paleogeographic world of the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coastal Plain … . … [L]ibraries that cover systematic zoology will probably need to acquire this book."
- CHOICE
"Ed Petuch's latest book will be welcomed by many loyal fossil collectors, is necessary for serious researchers dealing with Western Atlantic gastropod groups, and is of interest to students of evolution, ecology, stratigraphy and oceanography. … It will help collectors understand their shells as living organisms … [and] put their shells in a framework of time and space … . The photography in this book is very good … . … [O]verall this book succeeds in its basic premise: to divide the east coast malacofaunas into communities … . "
- American Conchologist
"Petuch lays the groundwork for those who want to study evolution and extinction within specific communities…and evaluate how different community types were affected by changes in geography and climate. His descriptive foundation allows us to view events in the history of life in the specific environmental and biotic contexts in which evolution, invasion, and extinction take place. There are no apples and oranges in the fossil record, but the present book will stimulate the kind of research in which metaphorical apples and oranges will no longer be confused. We shall all benefit from the fruits of Petuch's pioneering efforts."
Geerat J. Vermeij, University of California at Davis, from The Foreword
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