This volume embraces the history of insect palaeontology, methods for studying fossils, the taphonomic processes leading to their formation, the diagnostic features of all insect orders, both extant and extinct, the major fossils of each order, and the implications that can be drawn from the palaeoentomological record about past ecology and climates. It includes a very large number of illustrations showing both real fossils and reconstructions of extinct taxa. The systematic part is treated in a phylogenetic framework, with information on fossil groups being used to help interpret relationships. An appendix provides information on sites where fossil insects have been found. This book should be useful to all students of palaeoentomology and contains information that should be of interest to students of insect evolutionary relationships and of palaeontology in general.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN-13
9781402000263
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95484632
Product Key Features
Author
A.P. Rasnitsyn, Donald L. Quicke
Publication Name
History of Insects
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Geology, Zoology, Botany, Biology
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
517 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
279mm
Item Width
216mm
Item Weight
1578g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Donald L. Quicke, A.P. Rasnitsyn
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