Problematic fossils--those groups of organisms that do not fit conveniently into any existing phylum--play a pivotal role in the reconstruction of the history of life, being in effect "early experiments." This lavishly illustrated volume provides careful analyses and descriptions--in anatomical, functional, and developmental terms--of most of the major problematic fossil taxa. Sixteen original papers, written by internationally recognized scholars, discuss the features that make these taxa problematic and that provide clues to their phylogenetic relationships. Since Precambrian groups have been well covered in the existing literature, Hoffman and Nitecki focus on Paleozoic, and especially Early Paleozoic organisms, although Precambrian biota are also discussed.
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HARDCOVER. 1st edition. 267pp, large octavo in blue cloth. Monographs on Geology and Geophysics, no.5. mild cover wear, tight binding, Dale Rice bookplate, foxing to endpapers, clean throughout, Very Good-. Artikel-Nr. 114035
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orig.cloth. Zustand: Minor rubbing, VG. Textual photos & drawings (illustrator). 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. Artikel-Nr. 001480
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