02852nam 2200613Ia 450 991081835270332120240313072333.01-283-73545-80-253-00606-6(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 the search for the conodont animal /Simon J. Knell1st ed.Bloomington 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 J310050MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818352703321The great fossil enigma4113081UNINA