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Recommended
Reading
Very little
popular literature on micropaleontology exists. The books
and articles cited below are mostly at the college undergraduate
level. Works include general overviews, as well as references
to the most important groups.
Margulis,
L. & Sagan, D., 1986 (paperback 1997). Microcosmos:
four billion years of microbial evolution. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 300 pp. Popular introduction
to the history of one-celled organisms..
Lipps,
J. H, 1981. What, if anything, is micropaleontology? Paleobiology,
vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 167-199. An elegant essay on the history
and scope of this science.
Bignot,
G., 1985. Elements of micropaleontology. London:
Graham & Trotman Ltd., 217 pp. (transl. from French edition,
Dunod & Cie., Paris, 1982). Concise, well-written overview.
Haq,
B. U. & Boersma, A., 1978. Introduction to marine
micropaleontology. New York: Elsevier, 376 pp. A
well designed introductory textbook for American universities.
Pokorný,
V., 1963; 1965. Principles of zoological micropaleontology.
Oxford: Pergamon Press, vol. I, 1963, 640 pp.; vol.
II, 1965, 457 pp. (Transl. from German edition, VEB Deutscher
Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1958). Enlarged from
the Czech (1954). The classic text: thorough, informative,
and very comprehensive.
Ramsay,
A. T. S. (editor), 1977. Oceanic micropaleontology.
New York: Academic Press, 2 vols., 1,453 pp. Leading
scholars discuss this most important aspect of micropaleontologival
research.
Kauffman,
E. G. & Hazel, J. E. (editors), 1977. Concepts and
methods in biostratigraphy. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania:
Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 658 pp. Dating the geological
record with fossils (mostly microfossils).
Traverse,
A., 1988. Paleopalynology. Boston: Allen &
Unwin, 600 pp. (paper). Fossil spores and pollen.
Sarjeant,
W. A. S., 1974. Fossil and living dinoflagellates. New
York: Academic Press, 182 pp. One of the major groups of
protist phytoplankton, or algae, in the fossil record, especially
for older strata (Paleozoic)
Round,
F. E., Crawford, R. M. & Mann, D. G., 1990. The
diatoms. Cambridge University Press, 743 pp. The
most abundant of all protist phytoplankton in most marine
and fresh water environments.
Winter,
A. & Siesser, W. G. (eds.), 1994. Coccolithophores.
Cambridge University Press, 282 pp. Prolific
"calcareous nannoplankton" are ubiquitous age indicators.
Cordey,
Fabrice, 1995 - Radiolaria
(web page) Silica structures of these
predatory protists resemble snowflakes.
Lee,
J. J. & Anderson, O. R. (editors), 1991. Biology
of Foraminifera. London: Academic Press, 368 pp. The
many complex adaptations of the best-known of all fossilizing
Protista groups.
Hemleben,
C., Spindler, M., & Anderson, O. R., 1989. Modern
planktonic Foraminifera. New York: Springer Verlag,
363 pp. Free-floating forams are the worldwide markers
in the geological time scale.
Murray,
J. W., 1991. Ecology and paleontology of benthic Foraminifera.
London: Longman Scientific & Technical, 397 pp.
Bottom-dwelling forams are everywhere on and beneath the
sea floor.
Neale,
J. W. (editor), 1969. The taxonomy, morphology and ecology
of recent Ostracoda. Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd,
553 pp. A symposium of leading researchers reports on the
bizarre world of these tiny arthropods.
Whatley,
R., & Maybury, C. (editors), 1990. Ostracoda and
global events. London: Chapman and Hall, 621 pp. Ostracodes
provide the evidence in major geological detective stories
over the past 400 million years.
DeDecker,
P., Colin, J.-P., & Peypouquet, J.-P. (editors), 1988.
Ostracoda in the earth sciences. Amsterdam:
Elsevier, 302 pp. Experts describe what the extremely sensitive
ostracodes can tell us about the past
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