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This book is an outcome of a collective research on the subject by the
authors. The contents include two parts. Part I contains nine chapters
and deals mainly with the skeletal structures and classification of the
Palaeozoic corals. The first chapter is introductory. The main theme of
this work is to investigate the minute skeletal structures and to attempt
a revised classification on that basis, especially of tugose corals. This
forms the content of chapter 2. Two different kinds of primary skeleton,
the lamellat skeleton characterized by calcite flakes and the fibrous
skeleton dominated by calecite needles or fibres, may be distinguished
in Rugosa, Tabulata and also in Heterocorallia. The skeletal structures
of the Rugosa is the most interesting and complicated. Altogether 75 genera
of Rugosa. 24 of Tabulata and one of Heterocorallia are studied by SEM
method, and the photographs are illustrated in 73 plates out of the 81
in total.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Skeletal Structures and Systematic Classification of the Subelass
RUGOSA
Chapter 3. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the Order CYSTIPHYLLIDA
of China
Chapter 4. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the Order STREPTELASMATIDA
of China
Chapter 5. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the Order COLUMNARIIDA
of China
Chapter 6. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the Order CANINIIDA
of China
Chapter 7. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the Order ZAPHRENTOIDIDA,
Suborder Plerophyllina and Order HETEROCORALIA of China
Chapter 8. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the non-favositid
TABULATA of China
Chapter 9. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the Favositid TABULATA
of China
Chapter 10.Evolutional Stages and Biogeography of the Rugose Corals
Chapter 11.Crdovician and Silurian Rugose Coral Faunas of China
Chapter 12.Devonian Rugose Coral Faunas and Biogeography of China
Chapter 13.Carboniferous and Permian Rugose Coral Assemblages and Biogeography
of China
Chapter 14.Ordovician to Devonian Tabulate Coral Faunas and Biogeography
of China
Chapter 15.Carboniferous and Permian Tabulate Coral Faunas and Biogeography
of China Selected Bibliography
Chinese-English bilingual glossary of main terms
Index of generic names
English Summary
Explanation of Plates
Serial numbers of the SEM photographs used in plates
Plates
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