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China is one of those countries that are extremely rich
in stromatoporoids fossils in the world and has a history of over 60 years
in the study of stromatoporoids fossils although there are only very few
scholars engaged in the research on them. In this book a thorough, systematic,
and intensive summary of the stromatoporoids found in China is made and
serious and systematic amalgamation and revision of over 1100 species
of stromatoporoids which have been described are also made. A total of
726 species and 97 genera are described herein, of which 78 genera and
675 species are of Paleozoic age and 19 genera and 51 species are Mesozoic
in age.
This is a strenuous complicated but very important
basic research work and is also a comprehensive summary of the stromatoporoids
found in China. The writer gives a discusion on the fundamental structures,
taxonomic value, and microstructures of stromatoporoids and their significances
in the classification and stratigraphic division, proposes the principle
and plan for the classification of Chinese stromatoporoids based on the
newest classification plans of other countries and combined with the Chinese
and materials, and designs the evolutionary models of their origin, development,
and extinction. Their existence, Paleoecological features and stratigraphic
and geographic as well as the role they played in the reef-building are
dealt with in this book also.
This book is a comprehensive monograph dealing with
the most abundant materials and most complete types of the stromatoporoids
in the present world. It will become an indispensable reference book for
the study of stromatoporoides in and outside China and will play an important
role in teaching, scientific research and production.
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