Dear everybody,
We have been having different discussions about biomineralization.
Seldom in biomineralised fossils the bio part is preserved. As well as
biomineralised bodies are an interaction among both the mineral and
biological parts and sometimes have evolved independently.
The question here is that you can use cladistics to linked different genera
using only the mineral parts?Or it would make more sense first study
bio-mineralisation processes in similar modern cases and apply them to
fossil analyses?
Please, I would appreciate comments here, publications etc!