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6 Calcite and Aragonite
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Jodi Summers
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface xiii
- Foreword xix
- Foreword xxi
- 1 The Aristocratic Ammonite 1
- 2 Orders and Disorder 21
- 3 Named for a God 35
- 4 Ammonites Are Tools to Mark Time 57
- 5 Death and Fossilization 79
- 6 Calcite and Aragonite 99
- 7 The Animal in the Ammonite Shell 113
- 8 Size Matters between Ammonites 135
- 9 What Ammonites Ate 149
- 10 What Ate Ammonites 163
- 11 Heteromorphs Are a Wacky Part of Evolution 179
- 12 Ammonites Are Sacred 191
- 13 They Arrived After One Extinction and Expired from Another 213
- 14 What You End Up Collecting 229
- Closing Words 249
- Epilogue 251
- Acknowledgments and Thank Yous 253
- Bibliography/Additional Resources 257
- Index 287
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface xiii
- Foreword xix
- Foreword xxi
- 1 The Aristocratic Ammonite 1
- 2 Orders and Disorder 21
- 3 Named for a God 35
- 4 Ammonites Are Tools to Mark Time 57
- 5 Death and Fossilization 79
- 6 Calcite and Aragonite 99
- 7 The Animal in the Ammonite Shell 113
- 8 Size Matters between Ammonites 135
- 9 What Ammonites Ate 149
- 10 What Ate Ammonites 163
- 11 Heteromorphs Are a Wacky Part of Evolution 179
- 12 Ammonites Are Sacred 191
- 13 They Arrived After One Extinction and Expired from Another 213
- 14 What You End Up Collecting 229
- Closing Words 249
- Epilogue 251
- Acknowledgments and Thank Yous 253
- Bibliography/Additional Resources 257
- Index 287