The adequacy of the fossil record /

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Imprint:Chichester ; New York : John Wiley, c1998.
Description:x, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3398838
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Other authors / contributors:Donovan, S. K.
Paul, C. R. C. (Christopher R. C.)
ISBN:0471969885 (cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Adequacy versus Incompleteness
  • 1. Adequacy, Completeness and the Fossil Record / Christopher R. C. Paul
  • 2. Determining Stratigraphic Ranges / Charles R. Marshall
  • 3. Resolution of the Fossil Record: The Fidelity of Preservation / David M. Martill
  • 4. The Completeness of the Pleistocene Fossil Record: Implications for Stratigraphic Adequacy / Benjamin J. Greenstein, John M. Pandolfi and H. Allen Curran
  • 5. An Overview of the Completeness of the Fossil Record / Christopher R. C. Paul and Stephen K. Donovan
  • 6. Fossil Soils and Completeness of the Rock and Fossil Records / Gregory J. Retallack
  • 7. Phylogenetic Analyses and the Quality of the Fossil Record / Peter J. Wagner
  • 8. 'Taxonomic Barriers' and Other Distortions within the Fossil Record / Carl F. Koch
  • 9. Patterns of Occurrence of Benthic Foraminifera in Time and Space / Stephen J. Culver and Martin A. Buzas
  • 10. The Fossil Record of Cheilostome Bryozoa in the Neogene and Quaternary of Tropical America: Adequacy for Phylogenetic and Evolutionary Studies / Alan H. Cheetham and Jeremy B. C. Jackson
  • 11. The Fossil Record of Bivalve Molluscs / Elizabeth M. Harper
  • 12. The Quality of the Fossil Record of the Vertebrates / Michael J. Benton.