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Relying on late-1990s analytical techniques, this reference offers comprehensive coverage of the development, evolution, and morphology of both fossil and living cephalopods. In 34 in-depth chapters a group of 51 international neontologists and peleontologists offer and overview of methods, data, analyses, interpretations, and suggestions for future research. With its combination of contributions on living and fossil cephalopods, this book provides researchers and advanced students in paleontology, invertebrate zoology, evolutionary biology, and allied disciplines with a trove of data and authoritative interpretations that should benefit their own studies.

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Author:   Federico Olóriz ,  Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   1999 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   2.860kg
ISBN:  

9780306459382

ISBN 10:   0306459388
Pages:   550
Publication Date:   31 March 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I: Development and Evolution.- 1. Cephalopod Development and Evolution: Biological Insight into Ontogenesis as a Guide to Paleomorphology.- 2. Hatching of Nautilus macromphalus in the Toba Aquarium, Japan.- 3. Comparative Analysis of Some Morphometric Characters in Two Sepiolids: Sepietta neglecta (Naef, 1916) and Sepietta oweniana (Orbigny, 1840).- 4. Embryonic Development of Primitive Ammonoids and the Monophyly of the Ammonoidea.- 5. A Late Carboniferous Spirulid Coleoid from the Southern Mid-Continent (USA): Shell Wall infrastructure and Evolutionary Implications.- 6. Plasticity of Developmental Timing as the Underlying Cause of High Speciation Rates in Ammonoids: An Example from the Cenomanian Western Interior Seaway of North America.- 7. Pathologic Gigantism in Middle Carboniferous Cephalopods, Southern Midcontinent, United States.- 8. Aalenian Tmetoceras (Ammonoidea) from Iberia: Taxonomy, Habitats, and Evolution.- 9. Evolution of the Family Sibiritidae and Detailed Biostratigraphy of the Siberian Upper Olenekian (Triassic).- 10. The Genus Cadochamoussetia in the Phylogeny of the Jurassic Cardioceratidae (Ammonoidea).- 11. A Review of Volkhovian and Kundan (Arenig-Llanvirn) Nautiloids from Sweden.- 12. The Xiphoteuthididae Bather, 1892 (Aulacocerida, Coleoidea): An Outline Classification.- II: Form, Construction, and Function.- 13. Ultrastructural Studies on the Epidermis of Adult Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797.- 14. Comparative Immunohistochemical and Immunocytochemical Investigations on the Location of Haemocyanin Synthesis in Dibranchiate and Tetrabranchiate Cephalopods (Sepia and Nautilus).- 15. Ultrastructural Studies of the Suckers of Newly Hatched Eledone moschata and Octopus vulgaris (Mollusca; Cephalopoda).- 16. Conch Ultrastructure and Septal Neck Ontogeny of the Belemnite Conobelus (Duvaliidae) from the Valanginian of the Crimea (Black Sea).- 17. Aggregation of Aragonite in the Outer Prismatic Layer of Mesozoic Ammonoids.- 18. Internal Features of the Embryonic Shells of Late Carboniferous Goniatitina.- 19. Early Ontogeny of the Siphuncle and Shell in the Early Carboniferous Rayonnoceras (Actinocerida) from Arkansas, USA.- 20. The Use of Landmarks to Describe Ammonite Shape: Examples from the Harpoceratinae.- 21. Recent Advances in Morphometric Approaches to Covariation of Shell Features and the Complexity of Suture Lines in Late Jurassic Ammonites, with Reference to the Major Environments Colonized.- 22. Morphological Diversity of Ammonoids from the Lower Namurian of Central Asia.- 23. Whorl Width in the Body Chamber of Ammonites as a Sign of Dimorphism.- III: Taphonomy, Palaeoecology, Palaeobiogeography, Biostratigraphy, and Basin Analysis.- 24. Rollmarks of Soft Parts and a Possible Crop Content of Late Cretaceous Ammonites from the Slovenian Karst.- 25. Possible Cephalopod Reproductive Mass Mortality Reflected by Middle Carboniferous Assemblages, Arkansas, Southern United States.- 26. Silurian Cephalopod Limestone Facies in the Carnic Alps (Rauchkofel Boden Section, Austria): Taphonomy of the Nautiloid Fauna.- 27. Nautiloid Paleobathymetry from the Silurian &3x2018;Orthoceras Limestone’ Facies of SW Sardinia, Italy.- 28. Aalenian Tmetoceras (Ammonoidea) from Iberia: Taphonomy and Palaeobiogeography.- 29. Belemnite Distribution Patterns: Implications of New Data from Argentina.- 30. The Deshayesites Kazansky, 1914 (Ammonoidea) Representatives in Romania, a Link between the West-European and Caspian Assemblages of this Genus.- 31. Ammonite Biostratigraphy and Correlations in the Upper Jurassic-Lowermost CretaceousLa Caja Formation of North-Central Mexico (Sierra de Catorce, San Luis Potosi).- 32. Silurian Cephalopod Limestone Biofacies from Eastern Siberia: Fauna, Age, and Environments.- 33. Biostratigraphic Distribution of Lower Carboniferous Ammonoids in Northern Russia.- 34. Stratigraphic Position of Valanginites, Lissonia, and Acantholissonia in the Lower Valanginian (Lower Cretaceous) Ammonite Sequence of the Neuquen Basin, Argentina.

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