Special Papers in Palaeontology, Conodont

Special Papers in Palaeontology, published by The Palaeontological Association, is a series of substantial separate works conforming to the style of the Palaeontology journal. Two issues are published each year and feature high standard illustrations. Discusses the nature and quality of the conodont fossil record. Brings together researchers, geologists and enthusiasts who continue to find material of significance. Contributors include Walter C. Sweet, Howard A. Armstrong, Oliver Lehnert, James F. Miller and Steven A. Leslie. Includes 3 plates, 9 tables and 79 text-figures.

Mark A. Purnell is Professor of Geology at the University of Leicester.

Philip C.J. Donoghue is Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.
Both are members of The Palaeontological Association.

Preface

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(2)

Mark A. Purnell

Philip C. J. Donoghue

Between death and data: biases in interpretation of the fossil record of conodonts

7

(20)

Mark A. Purnell

Philip C.J. Donoghue

Modes of growth in the euconodont oral skeleton: implications for bias and completeness in the fossil record

27

(12)

Howard A. Armstrong

An experimental investigation of post-depositional taphonomic bias in conodonts

39

(18)

Peter H. Von Bitter

Mark A. Purnell

Biases in the recovery and interpretation of micropalaeontological data

57

(16)

Lennart Jeppsson

Multielement conodont apparatuses of Triassic Gondolelloidea

73

(30)

Michael J. Orchard

Silurian conodont biostratigraphy and palaeobiology in stratigraphic sequences

103

(14)

James E. Barrick

Peep Mannik

Cambro-Ordovician sea-level fluctuations and sequence boundaries: the missing record and the evolution of new taxa

117

(18)

Oliver Lehnert

James F. Miller

Steven A. Leslie

John E. Repetski

Raymond L. Ethington

Graphical refinement of the conodont database: examples and a plea

135

(8)

Walter C. Sweet

The likelihood of stratophenetic-based hypotheses of genealogical succession

143

(16)

Peter D. Roopnarine

The chronophyletic approach: stratophenetics facing an incomplete fossil record

159

(26)

Jerzy Dzik

Cladograms, phylogenies and the veracity of the conodont fossil record

185

Linda M. Wickstrom

Philip C.J. Donoghue

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Special Papers in Palaeontology, Conodont Biology and Phylogeny Interpreting the Fossil Record

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

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