Cephalopods Present and Past: New Insights and Fresh Perspectives

This book brings together an international group of scientists who focus on present-day and fossil cephalopods, ranging broadly from Paleozoic ammonoids to today's octopods. It covers systematics and evolution., hard- and soft part morphology., and ecology, biogeography, and taphonomy.

The book also includes 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-depth study of octopus ecology in Alaska. Presenting the wide diversity of cephalopods now and in the past, this volume is remarkable in its simultaneous treatment of both fossil and living forms.

Scientists and researchers., graduates studying the systematics, evolution, morphology, ecology, biogeography and taphonomy of fossil cephalopods