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This is an up-to-date review of the adequacy of the fossil record and its utility, providing an examination of the role and use of evidence in palaeontology. Leading authorities contribute review chapters on specific topics, assess the strengths and weaknesses of fossil evidence and provide essays on the research methodologies of research palaeontologists and their scientific results. The first eight chapters are concerned largely with broader issues of theory and interpretation. The next five chapters discuss particular fossil groups which are chosen to illustrate how the concepts of completeness and adequacy are influenced by variations in skeletal form. This is a volume on the fundamental structure of a major research discipline, offering systematic discussions of the fundamental basis of paleontology. The topic should be of interest not only in palaeontology, but also in evolutionary studies, biology, and comparative anatomy.

Table of Contents:
Introduction - adequacy versus incompleteness, Stephen K. Donovan and Christopher R.C. Paul; adequacy, completeness and the fossil record, Christopher R.C. Paul; determining stratugraphics ranges, Charles R. Marshall; resolution of the fossil record - the fidelity of preservation, David M. Martill; the completeness of the Pleistocene fossil record - implications for stratigraphic adequacy, Benjamin J. Greenstein et al; an overview of the completeness of the fossil record, Christopher R.C. Paul and Stephen K. Donovan; fossil solids and completeness of the rock and fossil records, Gregory J. Retallack; phylogenetic analyses and the quality of the fossil record, Peter J. Wagner; "taxonomic barriers" and other distortions within the fossil record, Carl F. Koch; patterns of occurrence of benthic Foraminifera in time and space, Stephen J. Culver and Martin A. Buzas; the fossil record of cheilostome bryozoa in the Neogene and Quaternay of tropical America - adequacy for phylogenetic and evolutionary studies, Alan H. Cheetham and Jeremy B.C. Jackson; the fossil record of bivalue molluscs, Elizabeth M. Harper; the quality of the fossil record of the vertebrates, Michael J. Benton.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780471969884
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
  • Height: 235 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 157 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0471969885
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jul 1998
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 600 gr


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