Problematic Fossil Taxa

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

ISBN 10: 0195039920 / ISBN 13: 9780195039924

Published by Oxford / Clarendon, New York / Oxford, 1986

About this Item

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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Problematic Fossil Taxa
• Publisher: Oxford / Clarendon, New York / Oxford
• Publication Date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0195039920
• ISBN 13: 9780195039924
• Binding: orig.cloth
• Illustrator: Textual photos & drawings
• Condition: Minor rubbing, VG.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Paleontology

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Antoni Hoffman is at Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw and Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University. Matthew H. Nitecki is at Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.