The great fossil enigma: the search for the conodont animal
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Main Author: Knell, Simon J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington and Indianapolis Indiana University Press 2012
Series:Life of the past
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Item Description:Electronic book
Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as a ""riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."" This animal confounded science for more than a century. Some thought it a slug, others a fish, a worm, a plant, even a primitive ancestor of ourselves. The list of possibilities grew and yet an answer to the riddle never seemed any nearer. Would the animal that left behind these miniscule fossils known as conodonts ever be identified? Three times the animal was ""found, "" but each was quite a different animal. Were any of them really the one? Simon J.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xx, 413 pages
ISBN:9780253006066
0253006066
1283735458
9781283735452

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