The Great Fossil Enigma (66 page)

Pilsbry, Henry

Pincus, Howard

plant; affinity; confused with

plate tectonics

Playford, Phillip

Plummer, Helen

Poe, Edgar Allan

Pollock, Charles

Polygnathus
;
P. dubius

Polylophodonta

Portage Formation

Pratt Ferry

Priddle, Julian

protoconodont

provincialism

Pseudopolygnathus

Purnell, Mark

Pygodus

 

Ramsay, A. T. S.

Raup, David

Reif, Wolf-Ernst

repair

research community; analysis of; geography; language; politics.
See also
Pander Society

Rexroad, Carl; animal; clusters; ecology; evolution; provinces

Rhodes, Frank; acids; affinity; career; cluster; natural assemblages; taxonomy; Scott's animal; statistical assemblages;
Treatise
; wear

Richardson, Eugene

Rickard, Larry

Rickards, Barrie

Riedl, Rupert

Rietschel, Siegfried

Ritchie, Alexander

Rohon, Josef Victor

Rolle, Friedrich

Romer, Alfred S.

rotifer

Roundy, Paul

Russell, Bertrand

 

Sabrosky, Curtis

Sandberg, Charles

Sannemann, Dietrich

Sansom, Ivan

scanning electron microscope

Schindewolf, Otto;
Handbuch
; Kellwasser; supernova

Schmidt, Hermann; natural assemblages; stratigraphy; taxonomy

Schopf, Thomas: recurrent groups; models

Schultze, Hans-Peter

Schütz, Alfred

Scott, Alan J.

Scott, Harold; affinity; animal; background; earthquakes; natural assemblages; oil discovery; taxonomy; utilitarianism

Scottognathus

shark.
See also
fish

sea cucumber

sea-squirts

Seddon, George

Sedgwick, Adam

Shaw, Alan

Shelley, Mary

Simpson, George G.

Sinclair, Winston

Siphonognathus

Sloss, Laurence

Smith, John

Smith, Moya

Smith, Paul: apparatus; Granton animals; vertebrate tissue; Waukesha animal

Smith, William

Sociéte Géologique de France

Society of Economic and Paleontologists and Mineralogists

somites

Soom Shale

Stadt müller, Franz

Stauffer, Clinton; affinity; anatomy; stratigraphy

Stensiö, Erik

Stimpson, William

Stoppel, Dieter

Stosch, Hans-Adolf von

stratigraphy; black shale problem; Cambrian; Carboniferous; Devonian; Index Genera; Mississippian; Ordovician; Pennsylvanian; significance of conodonts; Silurian; Transition Formation; Triassic; utilitarianism.
See also
contamination, ecology, global events, provincialism

Stronthmann, Freddie

Sweet, Walter C.; career;
Conodonta
; ecology; natural taxonomy; Ordovician stratigraphy; parataxa; provinces;
SEM

Sylvester-Bradley, Peter

Szaniawski, Hubert

 

Tait, David

Tatge, Ursula

taxonomy; biologic; crinoids; dual system; form names; military system; name proliferation; natural classification; parataxa; pragmatic; sponge precedent; utilitarian; worm precedent; zoological.
See also
evolution

teeth; chemistry; evolution; form; function; models; similarities to; structure.
See also
growth, wear

Theron, Hannes

Thorslund, Per Axel

Tillier, Simon

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
;
Conodonta
;
Miscellanea

trilobite; affinity

Trotter, J.

Turco, Caroline

Turner, Susan

 

Ulrich, Edward Oscar; black shale problem; classification; death; feud with Kindle; fish; not seeing conodonts; Paleozoic revision; Uncle Happy; unorthodoxy; utilitarianism; worm

United States Geological Survey.
See
U.S. Geological Survey

U.S. Geological Survey; Appalachians, in; black shales feud; ecology; expertise; global events; micropaleontology

 

Valentine, James

Verneuil, Edouard de

vertebrate: affinity; assumed; earliest; indicative structures.
See also
animal, bone, chordate, dentine, enamel, fish

Viira, Viive

Voges, Adolf

Volborth, Alexander von

 

Walcott, Charles

Walliser, Otto; sets; Silurian stratigraphy; global events

Ward, David

Warner, Earl

Warthin, Scott

Waterloo, University of

Watson, D. M. S.

wear

Webers, Gerald

Weddige, Karsten

Wells, H. G.

Westergaardodina

Westfalicus

Wetherby, Albert Gallatin

White, David

white matter

Whittington, Harold

Wilde, Pat

Wilkie, Lorna

Williams, Henry

Williams, Jimmy Steele

Williston, Samuel Wendell

Wittekindt, Hans

Wolayer Resolution

worm; affinity; confusion with; separation from; similarity to.
See also
chaetognath, nemertean

 

Yalden, Derek

Young, G. C.

Youngquist, Walter

 

Zaidan, Abe

Zeigler, Willi; career; challenges; Devonian stratigraphy; ecological model; Kellwasser Event;
SEM

Zittel, Karl von

 

 

SIMON J. KNELL
, Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, is renowned for his innovative studies of fossils as scientific and cultural objects. Previously a museum geologist, Knell's publications include
The Making of the Geological Society of London; The Culture of English Geology, 1815–1851;
and
The Age of the Earth: From 4004
BC
to 2002
AD.