Problematic Fossil Taxa

Hoffman, Antoni & Nitecki, Matthew H., editors:

ISBN 10: 0195039920 / ISBN 13: 9780195039924

Editore: Oxford / Clarendon, New York / Oxford, 1986

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26x18cm, viii, 267 pp, Oxford Monographs on Geology & Geophysics, no. 5 Contains 16 papers, including: Stefan Bengtson "The Problem of Problematica" ; Jack A. Babcock "The Puzzle of Alga-like Problematica, or rummaging around in the algal wastebasket" ; Matthew H. Nitecki " Receptaculitids & their relationship to other problematic fossils" ; Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev "Radiocyathids" ; Mikhail A. Fedonkin "Precambrian problematic animals: their body plan & phylogeny" ; George D. Stanley, Jr. "Chondrophorine hydrozoans as problematic fossils" ; A. Yu. Rozanov " Problematica of the Early Cambrian" ; Barry D. Webb "Early stromatoporoids"; Adam Urbanek "The Enigma of Graptolite ancestry: Lesson from a phylogenetic debate"; Jerzy Dzik "Chordate affinities of the conodonts", etc.

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• Titolo: Problematic Fossil Taxa
• Editore: Oxford / Clarendon, New York / Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0195039920
• ISBN 13: 9780195039924
• Rilegatura: orig.cloth
• Disegnatore: Textual photos & drawings
• Condizione: Minor rubbing, VG.
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Paleontology

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Riassunto

No single prescription can tell us how to deal with problematic fossil taxa. The fact that there is very little evidence is demonstrated in the highly divergent interpretations of a number of problematica. The editors of this volume provide the reader with updated ideas on most of the major problematic fossil taxa, showing that a sweeping change in the paradigm of study is under way. The contributors focus particularly on Early Paleozoic organisms, although Precambrian biota are also discussed. Each fossil group is discussed by an international specialist on the group, and the book is comprehensively illustrated with fossil photographs and diagrams.

Recensione

`The book is well edited. Suitable cross-references highlight similarities and differences of viewpoint between the various authors...Well produced, with very good illustrations and three types of index...Palaeontologists should be acquainted with this book and it deserves to be in every geological departmental library.' Geological Magazine