Table of Contents

Paleoseas of Cenozoic Eastern North. Biogeography of the Eastern American Paleoseas. Oligocene and Earliest Miocene Seas. Early Miocene Seas. Middle and Late Miocene Seas. Early and Late Pliocene Seas. The Everglades Pseudoatoll. Latest Pliocene and Earliest Pleistocene Seas. Early and Late Pleistocene Seas. Biotic Patterns in Time and Space.

About the Author

Petuch, Edward J.

Reviews

"In this very interesting and different kind of academic book, Petuch has generated a paleogeographic world of the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coastal Plain . [L]ibraries that cover systematic zoology will probably need to acquire this book." - CHOICE "Ed Petuch's latest book will be welcomed by many loyal fossil collectors, is necessary for serious researchers dealing with Western Atlantic gastropod groups, and is of interest to students of evolution, ecology, stratigraphy and oceanography. It will help collectors understand their shells as living organisms [and] put their shells in a framework of time and space . The photography in this book is very good . [O]verall this book succeeds in its basic premise: to divide the east coast malacofaunas into communities ." - American Conchologist "Petuch lays the groundwork for those who want to study evolution and extinction within specific communitiesand evaluate how different community types were affected by changes in geography and climate. His descriptive foundation allows us to view events in the history of life in the specific environmental and biotic contexts in which evolution, invasion, and extinction take place. There are no apples and oranges in the fossil record, but the present book will stimulate the kind of research in which metaphorical apples and oranges will no longer be confused. We shall all benefit from the fruits of Petuch's pioneering efforts." Geerat J. Vermeij, University of California at Davis, from The Foreword Promo Copy