Language: Chinese with English summary
Published on: 2001-01
Hardcover
China is one of those countries that are extremely rich in stromatoporoids fossils in the world and has a history of over 60 years in the study of stromatoporoids fossils although there are only very few scholars engaged in the research on them. In this book a thorough, systematic, and intensive summary of the stromatoporoids found in China is made and serious and systematic amalgamation and revision of over 1100 species of stromatoporoids which have been described are also made. A total of 726 species and 97 genera are described herein, of which 78 genera and 675 species are of Paleozoic age and 19 genera and 51 species are Mesozoic in age.
This is a strenuous complicated but very important basic research work and is also a comprehensive summary of the stromatoporoids found in China. The writer gives a discusion on the fundamental structures, taxonomic value, and microstructures of stromatoporoids and their significances in the classification and stratigraphic division, proposes the principle and plan for the classification of Chinese stromatoporoids based on the newest classification plans of other countries and combined with the Chinese and materials, and designs the evolutionary models of their origin, development, and extinction. Their existence, Paleoecological features and stratigraphic and geographic as well as the role they played in the reef-building are dealt with in this book also.
This book is a comprehensive monograph dealing with the most abundant materials and most complete types of the stromatoporoids in the present world. It will become an indispensable reference book for the study of stromatoporoides in and outside China and will play an important role in teaching, scientific research and production.
