Journal article
The animal microfossils
Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol.17, pp.84-120
1966
Abstract
Samples were taken at 5 cm intervals from two cores of the lake sediments, and microfossils were quantitatively determined. The remains of 26 species of Cladocera, two distinct genera of ostracods, several different turbellarian egg cocoons, Chaoborus, and several different midges were identified. Cladocera were by far the most abundant. Since most of the species have never been described in detail, most of the paper is devoted to systematic descriptions, especially of the chydorid Cladocera. Abundance graphs are included. Autogenic animal microfossil studies conform well with the zonation shown by pollen. There is also a correlation between the loss on ignition graph and the total chydorid Cladocera. Changes in abundance of all animals and of stability of the chydorid population indicates that the aquatic community was continually disturbed.
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- Title
- The animal microfossils
- Creators
- Clyde E. Goulden
- Publication Details
- Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol.17, pp.84-120
- Publisher
- Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- Identifiers
- 991019350661504721