Advancing Research on Living & Fossil Cephalopods: Development & Evolution, Form, Construction, Function, Taphonomy, Palaeoecology, Palaeobiogeography, Biostratigraphy, & Basin Analysis

Relying on the latest analytical techniques, this all-embracing new reference offers comprehensive coverage of the development, evolution, and morphology of both fossil and living cephalopods. In 34 in-depth chapters a group of 51 international neontologists and peleontologists offer and opverview of current methods, data, analyses, and interpretations, and posit suggestions for future research. With its unparalleled combination of first-rate contributions on living and fossil cephalopods, this book provides researchers and advanced students in paleontology, invertebrate zoology, evolutionary biology, and allied disciplines with a trove of recent data and authoritative interpretations that will immeasurably benefit their own studies.

The proceedings of an international symposium held in Granada, Spain, in July 1996. The 34 papers include discussions of ontogenetic patterns and processes from an evolutionary perspective as revealed by the reproductive system of octopods, the lower beaks of coleoids and ammonites, and the arm crown of the coleoids; ultrastructure analysis to describe cell types in the epidermis of the ventral funnel and mantle of adult Octopus vulgaris, interpret fine structure and function, and evaluate the similarity of the species with other molluscs; and possible prints of the hyponome and crop-content in Lower Campanian Placenticeratidae in relation to rollmarks and closers of minute brachiopods. The collection is generously illustrated in black and white.
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Development and Evolution. Cephalopod Development and Evolution: Biological Insight into Ontogenesis as a Guide to Paelomorphology; S.V. Boletzky. Hatching of Nautilus macromphalus in the Toba Aquarium, Japan; K. Uchiyama, K. Tanabe. Comparative Analysis of Some Morphometric Characters in Two Sepiolids: Sepietta neglecta (Naef, 1916) and Sepietta oweniana (Orbigny, 1840); E. Lefkaditou, P. Kaspiris. Form, Construction, and Function. Ultrastructural Studies on the Epidermis of Adult Octopus vulgaris (Cuvier, 1797); S. Lenz. Comparative Immunohistochemical and Immunocytochemical Investigations on the Location of Haemocyanin Synthesis in Dibranchiate and Tetrabranchiate Cephalopods (Sepia and Nautilus); P. Ruth, et al. Ultrastructural Studies of the Suckers of Newly Hatched Eledone moschata and Octopus vulgaris (Mollusca; Cephalopoda); H. Schmidtberg. Taphonomy, Palaeoecology, Palaeobiogeography, Biostratigraphy, and Basin Analysis. Rollmarks of Soft Parts and a Possible Crop Content of Late Cretaceous Ammonites from the Slovenian Kars; H. Summesberger, et al. Possible Cephalopod Reproductive Mass Mortality Reflected by Middle Carboniferous Assemblages, Arkansas, Southern United States; W.L. Manger, et al. 26 additional articles. Index.