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Nautilus - The Biology and Paleobiology of a Living Fossil, Reprint with additions (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2010)
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Nautilus - The Biology and Paleobiology of a Living Fossil, Reprint with additions (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2010)
Series: Topics in Geobiology, 6
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1. 1 Nautilus and Allonautilus: Two Decades of Progress W. Bruce
Saunders Department of Geology Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr PA 19010
wsaunder@brynmawr. edu Neil H. Landman Division of Paleontology
American Museum of Natural History New York, New York 10024
landman@amnh. org When Nautilus: Biology and Paleobiology of a
Living Fossil was published in 1987, it marked a milestone in
cross-disciplinary collaboration. More than half of the
contributing authors (36/65) were paleontologists, many of whom
were collaborating with neontological counterparts. Their interest
in studying this reclusive, poorly known animal was being driven by
a search for clues to the mode of life and natural history of the
once dominant shelled cephalopods, through study of the sole
surviving genus. At the same time, Nautilus offered an opportunity
for neontologists to look at a fundamentally different,
phylogenetically basal member of the extant Cephalopoda. It was a
w- win situation, combining paleontological deep-time perspectives,
old fashioned expeditionary zeal, traditional biological approaches
and new techniques. The results were cross-fertilized
investigations in such disparate fields as ecology, functional
morphology, taphonomy, genetics, phylogeny, locomotive dynamics,
etc. As one reviewer of the xxxvi Introduction xxxvii book noted,
Nautilus had gone from being one of the least known to one of the
best understood of living cephalopods.
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