The Early evolution of Metazoa and the significance of problematic taxa : proceedings of an international symposium held at the University of Camerino, 27-31 March 1989 /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991. |
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| Description: | ix, 296 p. : ill. ; 31 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1154856 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Origin of metazoans: a phylogeny deducted from sequences of the 28S ribosomal RNA
- 2. Major factors in the rapidity and extent of the metazoan radiation during the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition
- 3. Divergence and persistence of highly ranked taxa
- 4. Problematical taxa: a problem for biology or biologists?
- 5. Metazoan evolution around the Precambrian-Cambrian transition
- 6. Cladistic analysis of metazoan phyla and the placement of fossil problematica
- 7. Is fossil evidence consistent with traditional views of the early metazoan phylogeny?
- 8. Lower Cambrian lagerstatte from Chengjiang, Yunnan, China: insights for reconstructing early Metazoan life Chen Jun-Yuan
- 9. Middle Cambrian biotic diversity: examples from four Utah Lagerstatten
- 10. Extant 'problematica' within or near the Metazoa G. Haszprunar,
- 11. On the origin of the Bilateria: traditional views and recent altneratuve concepts
- 12. Problematic reef-building spongers
- 13. Beach and laboratory experiments with the jellyfish Aurelia, and remarks on some fossil 'medusoid' traces
- 14. Early Cambrian medusiform fossils from Chengjiang, Yannan, China Sun Weiguo
- 15. The enigma of conulariid affinities
- 16. Evolutionary affinities of conulariids
- 17. Functional morphology of the Class Helcionelloida nov., and the early evolution of the Molusca
- 18. The arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, with relationships and evolutionary significance
- 16. Early Palaeozoic arthropods and problems of arthropod phylogeny with some notes on taxa of doubtful affinities
- 17. New observations on the thylacocephala (Arthropoda, Crustacea)
- 18. Fossil Acarida: contribution of palaeontolgical data to acarid evolutionary history
- 19. Are Protura really insects
- 20. The Tully Monster and a new approach to analyzing problematica
- 21. Problematica-incertae sedis
