LEADER 02852nam  2200613Ia 450 
001 9910818352703321
005 20240313072333.0
010   $a1-283-73545-8
010   $a0-253-00606-6
035   $a(CKB)2670000000276369
035   $a(EBL)1061880
035   $a(OCoLC)826449458
035   $a(SSID)ssj0000759502
035   $a(PQKBManifestationID)11433562
035   $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759502
035   $a(PQKBWorkID)10802505
035   $a(PQKB)10733129
035   $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1061880
035   $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24633
035   $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1061880
035   $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10620951
035   $a(CaONFJC)MIL404795
035   $a(PPN)200674730
035   $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276369
100   $a20120601d2012      ub         0
101 0 $aeng
135   $aur|n|---|||||
181   $ctxt
182   $cc
183   $acr
200 14$aThe great fossil enigma $ethe search for the conodont animal /$fSimon J. Knell
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$d2012
215   $a1 online resource (438 p.)
225  0$aLife of the past
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-253-00604-X 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; 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; Index
330   $aStephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as a ""riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."" This animal confounded science for more than a century. Some thought it a slug, others a fish, a worm, a plant, even a primitive ancestor of ourselves. The list of possibilities grew and yet an answer to the riddle never seemed any nearer. Would the animal that left behind these miniscule fossils known as conodonts ever be identified? Three times the animal was ""found,"" but each was quite a different animal. Were any of them really the one? Simon J
410  0$aLife of the Past
606   $aConodonts
606   $aScience$xSocial aspects
615  0$aConodonts.
615  0$aScience$xSocial aspects.
676   $a562.2
700   $aKnell$b Simon J$0310050
801  0$bMiAaPQ
801  1$bMiAaPQ
801  2$bMiAaPQ
906   $aBOOK
912   $a9910818352703321
996   $aThe great fossil enigma$94113081
997   $aUNINA