Call number:
AWI Bio-97-0013-1
;
AWI Bio-97-0013-2
Description / Table of Contents:
This book is a manual for the determination of fossil and recent fruits and seeds. It includes species known in fossil condition and species which are most likely to be found in the future in quaternary deposits. Generally these are species discovered in pleistocene and holocene deposits and only partly in upper tertiary. In the book are given recommendations for the collection of samples for carpological analysis, methodics of paleocarpological analysis, methods for determining the age of floras and the age and genesis of the deposits containing them. Furthermore brief characteristics of carpological floras are given for different periods of the Quaternary for the U.S.S.R. and adjacent territories. There are two types of keys for determination of fruits and seeds - morphological (15 keys) and taxonomical (17 keys) for the determination of genera and species within large families and species within genera. The brief characteristics of fruits and seeds of different families and genera facilitate identification. Many carpoids may be determined in different ways, depending on the character considered in the determination and also owing to the individual variability of the shape and size of fruits and seeds under different ecological conditions. The descriptions of fruits and seeds include data on their present geographic distribution. Locations of fossil fruits and seeds are listed after literary data in the U.S.S.R., Poland, partly in Germany and England and the findings made by the authors of the book are reported. Among them are most numerous locations of fossils discovered by M. G. Kipiani in deposits of different ages and from different regions of the U.S.S.R. The keys for determinations embrace 108 families and over 1100 species. Almost all the descriptions are accompanied by drawings, mostly original ones, of recent fruits and seeds, and in many cases by drawings and photographs of fossils. The contours were drawn under a binocular microscope and the cell structure, separatedly, under a microscope. Furthermore the cell structure drawing was often fitted into the contours. This was done under a hand-lens; therefore it is recommended to use a hand-lens too in examining the drawings. Drawings of cross sections, either schematic or with details of cell structure facilitate determination. Dimensions are indicated in the legends to the figures only if omited in the descriptions. Magnification is indicated but approximately, taking into account the reduction, of the drawing in the preparation of cliches.
Description / Table of Contents:
Oglavlenie: Predislovie. - Značenie paleokarpologii. - Metod paleokarpologičeskogo analiza. - Sostav karpoidov v svjazi s vozrastom i genezisom vmeščajuščej porody. - Opredelenie vozrasta flory i otloženij, ee vključajuščich. - Karpologičeskie flory četvertičnogo perioda po jarusam i rajonam. - Opredelenie plodov i semjan. - Ključi dlja opredelenija plodov i semjan po gruppam i semejstvam. - A. Gruppy ključej po morfologičeskim priznakam. - B. Gruppy ključej po sistematičeskim priznakam. - V. Gruppy ključej po sistematičeskim priznakam (semejstvam i rodam). - Opisanie plodov, semjan i spor. - Summary. - Literatura. - Tablicy risunkov (1-94). - Alfavitnyj spisok latinskich nazvanij rastenij.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
364 S. : graph. Darst.
Branch Library:
AWI Library
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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