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Title

Histoire naturelle des crustacés fossiles, sous les rapports zoologiques et géologiques.

Description

Following his classic work in the Paris Basin (see History in the Layers of the Earth), Alexandre Brongniart continued to investigate and establish the principles of geohistorical investigation with works such as his Natural History of Crustacean Fossils (Histoire naturelle des crustacés fossiles, sous les rapports zoologiques et géologiques, 1822). In the image shown here, Brongniart focused on the peculiar trilobites, an extinct marine arthropod that somewhat resembles the extant horseshoe crab. He demonstrated that the “transition” rocks that hosted these fossils, represented a quite different and stranger world than our modern one. Trilobite species still serve a crucial role in modern Earth sciences for delineating the Cambrian period of the geologic record (542-485 million years ago).

Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)

Q. 565.3 B86H

See Also

Full Text Available at Gale Primary Sources

Authors

Brongniart, Alexandre

Full Title

Histoire naturelle des crustacés fossiles, sous les rapports zoologiques et géologiques

Date

1822

From the Exhibit

In Search of Lost Time: Fossils and the Record of Previous Worlds

Publisher

Chez. F.G. Levrault

Location

Paris

Language

French

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Text

Medium

Book

Bibliographic Citation

Brongniart, Alexandre. Histoire naturelle des crustacés fossiles, sous les rapports zoologiques et géologiques. Paris: Chez. F.G. Levrault, 1822.