China Graptolites

Author: Mu Enzhi
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: This book is a large-scale authoritative reference work that provides a comprehensive, systematic, and in-depth summary of Chinese graptolites. It is available for domestic and international peers, relevant higher education institutions, and stratigraphical and paleontological workers in geological, petroleum, coal, metallurgical, hydrological, and other production units for use in scientific research, teaching, and production practices. This book is a graptolite masterpiece worldwide with the richest graptolite materials, the most complete graptolite sequences, and the most comprehensive types of graptolites. The number of described species in this book is unique in the world. The book systematically clarifies over 3,000 species of graptolites described in China from 1924 to 1995, analyzing and organizing them into 2,286 species. For each species, in addition to describing its morphological characteristics, it discusses other layers and geographical distributions, and also compares and discusses the distinctions between genera and species. The book summarizes the historical overview of graptolite research in China. Based on the systematic description of a large number of graptolite genera and species, it revises and supplements the division of Chinese graptolite zones and their comparisons with foreign regions, analyzes the stratigraphical zoning of Ordovician strata in China and their lithofacies and biofacies characteristics, discusses the types of Ordovician graptolite faunas in China, as well as the evolution and classification of orthograptid tree-like graptolites and orthograptids. Referring to new classification standards, it systematically classifies Chinese graptolites.