Cephalopods Present and Past: New Insights and Fresh Perspectives

Abstract

This book brings together an international group of scientists focusingon present-day and fossil cephalopods, ranging broadly from Paleozoicammonoids to today's octopods. It has three general sections dealingwith: systematics and evolution; descriptions of hard- and soft partmorphology; and ecology, biogeography, and taphonomy. Several highlightsinclude new evidence for the existence of an ink sac in fossil ammonoids,a biogeographic study of clymeniid ammonoids throughout the world,the first record of a radula in baculite ammonoids, and an in-depthstudy of octopus ecology in Alaska. Th.