At the time of his death, John William Salter (1820–69) was dubbed 'the prince of palaeontologists'. A true naturalist with a particular interest in Trilobita, he started publishing this monograph in 1864, and three further parts were issued in 1865–7. But his heath failed and he died, lea...

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1. Verfasser:	Salter, John William 1820-1869 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1864
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge library collection. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society
Schlagworte:	Paläontologie Trilobites Paleontology / Great Britain Großbritannien
Online-Zugang:	BSB01 FHN01 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	At the time of his death, John William Salter (1820–69) was dubbed 'the prince of palaeontologists'. A true naturalist with a particular interest in Trilobita, he started publishing this monograph in 1864, and three further parts were issued in 1865–7. But his heath failed and he died, leaving around half of the trilobites then known from Britain unclassified; the work was wound up in 1883. Though unfinished, Salter's monograph has thirty excellent plates which make it an essential starting point for the study of British Devonian, Silurian and Ordovician trilobites. The monograph is also frequently cited because Salter's 'preliminary classification of trilobites', though brief, was the best devised up to that time, and has since served as a framework for the classifications used today. Salter introduced four orders of trilobites, three of which - Phacopida, Asaphida, Agnostida - are generally recognised today; only his group 'Ampycini' is not now used
Beschreibung:	Originally published in 1864. - Includes index
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (viii, 227 pages)
ISBN:	9781316146446
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781316146446