Re: 10.000 essential terms but no fossil groups

[Gautam Majumdar <gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jacques.Verniers@allserv.rug.ac.be wrote
>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? 
>

Oxford Concise Dictionary of Earth Sciences, Allaby A & Allaby M, 1990 has
an entry of Chitinodendron franconianum (though not Chitinozoa as a group)
as a Precambrian fossil. This dictionary also has Ammonites & Ammonoidea,
even Acritarchs. Total number of entries over 6000.

Gautam Majumdar                 gautam@majumdar.demon.co.uk