Language: Chinese with English summary
Published on: 1989-01
Hardcover
This book is an outcome of a collective research on the subject by the authors. The contents include two parts. Part I contains nine chapters and deals mainly with the skeletal structures and classification of the Palaeozoic corals. The first chapter is introductory. The main theme of this work is to investigate the minute skeletal structures and to attempt a revised classification on that basis, especially of tugose corals. This forms the content of chapter 2. Two different kinds of primary skeleton, the lamellat skeleton characterized by calcite flakes and the fibrous skeleton dominated by calecite needles or fibres, may be distinguished in Rugosa, Tabulata and also in Heterocorallia. The skeletal structures of the Rugosa is the most interesting and complicated. Altogether 75 genera of Rugosa. 24 of Tabulata and one of Heterocorallia are studied by SEM method, and the photographs are illustrated in 73 plates out of the 81 in total.
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Skeletal Structures and Systematic Classification of the Subelass RUGOSA
Chapter 3. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the Order CYSTIPHYLLIDA of China
Chapter 4. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the Order STREPTELASMATIDA of China
Chapter 5. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the Order COLUMNARIIDA of China
Chapter 6. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the Order CANINIIDA of China
Chapter 7. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the Order ZAPHRENTOIDIDA, Suborder Plerophyllina and Order HETEROCORALIA of China
Chapter 8. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the non-favositid TABULATA of China
Chapter 9. Skeletal Structures and Classification of the Favositid TABULATA of China
Chapter 10.Evolutional Stages and Biogeography of the Rugose Corals
Chapter 11.Crdovician and Silurian Rugose Coral Faunas of China
Chapter 12.Devonian Rugose Coral Faunas and Biogeography of China
Chapter 13.Carboniferous and Permian Rugose Coral Assemblages and Biogeography of China
Chapter 14.Ordovician to Devonian Tabulate Coral Faunas and Biogeography of China
Chapter 15.Carboniferous and Permian Tabulate Coral Faunas and Biogeography of China Selected Bibliography
Chinese-English bilingual glossary of main terms
Index of generic names
English Summary
Explanation of Plates
Serial numbers of the SEM photographs used in plates
Plates
