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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Reprint. 592 pp. General introduction: Biostratinomy (the study of the manner in which fossils become oriented and arranged in rocks), fossil diagenesis (the processes acting upon sediment and its constituents from deposition to eventual alteration by metamorphism or weathering), and biogeography and biostratigraphy from the Precambrian through the Quaternary. Dedicated to Treatise founder, Raymond C. Moore (1892-1974). This definitive series of volumes is the most comprehensive and authoritative body of knowledge in existence on invertebrate fossil groups. For each fossil group, these volumes describe and illustrate: morphological features, with special reference to hard parts; ontogeny; classification; geologic distribution; evolutionary trends and phylogeny; and systematic descriptions. There are a great many detailed illustrations and plates throughout the series.