Edited By: Marie-Pierre Aubry, Spencer G Lucas and William A Berggren
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Covering mammals, reptiles, invertebrates, and plants as well as the spectrum of the marine biota, the book documents both the well-established and the lesser-known turnovers, such as those of calcareous nannoplankton and terrestrial mollusks. The volume is also notable for its integration of knowledge culled from a wide variety of disciplines, geographic settings, fossil groups, and paleoenvironments.
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Marie-Pierre Aubry is associate scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Universite Montpellier II. She is the editor and co-editor of several books. Spencer Lucas is a curator of paleontology and geology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico and the coeditor of several books. William Alfred Berggren is senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, coeditor of several books, and author of more than 150 papers on Cenozoic geology.
Edited By: Marie-Pierre Aubry, Spencer G Lucas and William A Berggren
513 pages, 154 illus, tabs
This is a good compilation of data and ideas concerning an important time slice of Earth history. Some notable gems in this volume should make an impact on future thinking about climate-related biotic change. -- Erick A. Bestland GSA Today The editors have produced a well-organized state of the art compendium, which will form the baseline for studies of this problem well into the next millennium. -- E. Delson, CUNY CHOICE