One of the great enigmas of evolutionary biology has been how to
treat animals of problematic systematic position. Many are known
only as fossils, so this area has been of particular interest to
palaeobiologists. This book represents a wide synthesis. It
embraces not only general problems of animal classification of
animals and new information on their molecular sequences that bear
on their wider relationships, but also addresses more specific
problems. These include details appraisals of both living and
fossil groups. From the fossil record special emphasis is laid on
examples from exceptionally preserved biotas that include the
Burgess shale-type faunas of the Cambrian of south China and
western North America, the Carboniferous Mazon Creek beds of
Illinois, and the Jurassic Osteno beds of northern Italy. In
addition, experimental studies of soft-patrt preservation in
jellyfish are relevant to comparable preservation in the fossil
record.
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