The adequacy of the fossil record /
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Imprint: | Chichester ; New York : John Wiley, c1998. |
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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 |
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.