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This lavishly illustrated volume provides careful analyses and descriptions--in anatomical, functional, and developmental terms--of major problematic fossil taxa.

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Author:   Antoni Hoffman (, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw) ,  Matthew H. Nitecki (, Field Museum, Chicago)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 18.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 26.00cm
Weight:   0.799kg
ISBN:  

9780195039924

ISBN 10:   0195039920
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   02 April 1987
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Contributors Foreword: Why and How to Do Problematica 1: Introduction: The Problem of the Problematica 2: The Puzzle of Alga-Like Problematica or Rummaging Around in the Algal Wastebasket 3: Receptaculitids and Their Relationship to Other Problematic Fossils 4: Radiocyathids 5: Considerations on Systematic Placement of the Styliolines (Incertae Sedis: Devonian) 6: Precambrian Problematic Animals: Their Body Plan and Phylogeny 7: Chondrophorine Hydrozoans as Problematic Fossils 8: Problematica of the Early Cambrian 9: The Cambrian Net-Like Fossil Microdictyon 10: Turrilepadida and Other Machaeridia 11: The Phylum Conulariida 12: Early Stromatoporoids 13: Problematica from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia 14: The Enigma of Graptolite Ancestry: Lesson from a Phylogenetic Debate 15: Conodonts 16: Chordate Affinities of the Conodonts Author Index; Subject Index

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`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

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