02855nam 2200601Ia 450 991078635830332120200520144314.01-283-73545-80-253-00606-6(CKB)2670000000276369(EBL)1061880(OCoLC)826449458(SSID)ssj0000759502(PQKBManifestationID)11433562(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759502(PQKBWorkID)10802505(PQKB)10733129(MiAaPQ)EBC1061880(MdBmJHUP)muse24633(Au-PeEL)EBL1061880(CaPaEBR)ebr10620951(CaONFJC)MIL404795(PPN)200674730(EXLCZ)99267000000027636920120601d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe great fossil enigma[electronic resource] the search for the conodont animal /Simon J. KnellBloomington Indiana University Press20121 online resource (438 p.)Life of the pastDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-00604-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface & Acknowledgments; Prelude: The Impossible Animal; 1: The Road to El Dorado; 2: A Beacon in the Blackness; 3: The Animal with Three Heads; 4: Another Fine Mess; 5: Outlaws; 6: Spring; 7: Diary of a Fossil Fruit Fly; 8: Fears of Civil War; 9: The Promised Land; 10: The Witness; 11: The Beast of Bear Gulch; 12: The Invention of Life; 13: El Dorado; 14: Over the Mountains of the Moon; Afterword: The Progress of Tiny Things; Notes; IndexStephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as a ""riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."" This animal confounded science for more than a century. Some thought it a slug, others a fish, a worm, a plant, even a primitive ancestor of ourselves. The list of possibilities grew and yet an answer to the riddle never seemed any nearer. Would the animal that left behind these miniscule fossils known as conodonts ever be identified? Three times the animal was ""found,"" but each was quite a different animal. Were any of them really the one? Simon JLife of the PastConodontsScienceSocial aspectsConodonts.ScienceSocial aspects.562.2Knell Simon J310050MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786358303321The great fossil enigma3843377UNINA