Mollusks : notes for a short course / organized by D.J. Bottjer, C.S. Hickman, P.D. Ward

Conference Author: Short Course on Mollusks (1985 : Orlando, Fla.)
Published: Knoxville, TN : University of Tennessee, Dept. of Geological Sciences, 1985.
Physical Description: iv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Additional Creators: Bottjer, David J., Hickman, Carole Jean Stentz, Ward, Peter D. (Peter Douglas), 1949-, and Paleontological Society

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Series

Studies in geology (Knoxville, Tenn.) ; 13.

Contents

Toronto, 1978 -- The First Paleontological Society Short Course / Ellis L. Yochelson -- Definition of mollusca I / John Pojeta -- Definition of mollusca II / Ellis L. Yochelson -- Perspectives on molluscan phylogeny / Carole S. Hickman and David R. Lindberg -- Origin and early history of mollusks / Bruce Runnegar -- Molluscan development / David Jablonski -- Classification and phylogenetic significance of molluscan shell microstructure / Joseph G. Carter and George R. Clark -- Growth increments and geochemical variations in the molluscan shell / Douglas S. Jones -- Bivalve morphology and function / Adolf Seilacher -- Early evolutionary history of diasome mollusks / John Pojeta -- Bivalve paleoecology / David J. Bottjer -- Gastropod morphology and function / Carole S. Hickman -- Gastropod evolutionary history / Philip W. Signor -- Gastropod paleoecology / Alan J. Kohn -- Cephalopod morphology and function / Klaus Bandel -- Crises in cephalopod evolution / Curt Teichert -- Cephalopod paleoecology / Peter D. Ward and Gerd E. G. Westermann -- Aplacophorans, monoplacophorans, polyplacophorans, scaphopods: the lesser classes / David R. Lindberg -- An overview of the use of mollusks in biostratigraphy / Norman F. Sohl -- Molluscan paleobiology - as we creep towards the milleniwn: a critique of papers presented at the 1985 short course / Stephen Jay Gould.

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ISBN

0910249121 (pbk.)

Note

"Prepared for the Short Course on Mollusks sponsored by the Paleontological Society, held at Orlando, Florida, October 27, 1985."
"University of Tennessee, Knoxville publication R01-1040-27-001-86"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography Note

Bibliography: pages 268-305.

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