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The Fossils of the Hunsruck Slate: Marine Life in the Devonian »

Authors: Christoph Bartels, Derek E. G. Briggs, Gunther Brassel
ISBN-13: 9780521117074, ISBN-10: 0521117070
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

This beautifully illustrated book describes a very famous fossil deposit: the Hunsrück Slate of Germany.

	Introduction
Pt. I	The Hunsruck Slate	1
1	Mining the Hunsruck Slate	3
2	Geological setting	19
3	Paleoecology and preservation	30
Pt. II	The fossils	61
4	Plants	63
5	Sponges to bryozoans	71
6	Annelids and arthropods	111
7	Echinoderms	158
8	Vertebrates	229
9	Trace fossils	241
Pt. III	Techniques and future research	253
10	Collecting and preparing Hunsruck Slate fossils	255
11	Modern analytical techniques and future research	263
	Taxa recorded from the Hunsruck Slate	269
	Bibliography	281
	Index	303