10.000 essential terms but no fossil groups

[Jacques.Verniers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Dear Paleonetters,

Going through the 1997 edition of "Dictionary of Earth Sciences" (Mc
Graw-hill, ISBN 0-07-114920-1), advertising "10.000 essential terms
covering every discipline of Earth Sciences"  I looked for the term
Chitinozoa, my favourite group, and was not too surprised that it
was not there. I was more surprised that Acritarchs were not there,
neither ammonites and many other fossil groups. I have been
wondering if palaeontology is still a discipline of the Earth
Sciences. Can we do something to avoid these omissions in 
dictionaries that are often used by Earth Sciences students and 
researchers and where commonly used fossil groups are not mentioned? 

Jacques Verniers
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Jacques Verniers
Senior Research Associate (Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (Belgium)
University of Ghent, Departm. Geology & Pedology, Laboratory of Palaeontology
Krijgslaan 281 S8,     B-9000 Gent    Belgium
tel. +32(0)9-2644614; fax. +32(0)9-2644608; Email: jacques.verniers@rug.ac.be
Postal address: JV R.U.G. Palaeontology  Krijgslaan 281  B-9000 Gent  Belgium
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