Microfossils

This is a new and completely rewritten edition of the well-known text Microfossils (first published in 1980) covering all the major microfossil groups, with information on taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology and palaeoecology.

• particular attention is given to the uses of microfossils in environmental reconstruction and biostratigraphy
• numerous line and half-tone illustrations
• emphasis on practical applications of micropalaeontology
• only student-friendly micropaleontology text available

PaleoBase represents a unique combination of up-to-date information on an extensive collection of fossil genera, state-of-the-art color digital photographs of specimens from the Natural History Museum (London)'s unrivaled collection, and modern relational database technology. These fully searchable CDs provide an important new tool for researchers by representing the ideal fossil collection, one that in practice only the largest natural history museums could hope to assemble.