paleonet Optocentrism alert: 'Fossils of the Chalk' published today

[John Van Couvering <vanc@xxxxxxxx>]

Interesting that a volume on Fossils of the Chalk should blandly overlook 
the coccoliths, of which the Chalk is essentially composed.  Surely a 
mention, a few images.. ?  Maurice Black so soon forgotten?  We only 
considered fossils visible to the human eye, you explain.  Optocentric 
bias, I calls it.

John Van Couvering
nothing to do of course with Editor, Micropaleontology Press

At 11:10 AM 8/22/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>The Palaeontological Association's latest volume in the 'Field Guides to
>Fossils' series is a revised and enlarged edition of the 'Fossils of the
>Chalk.  There are separate chapters on: sponges, corals, serpulids,
>bryozoans, brachiopods, bivalves, gastropods, ammonites, nautiloids,
>arthropods, echinoderms, fishes, and reptiles.
>
>Full reference details are:
>
>Fossils of the Chalk; 2nd ed., revised and enlarged.  Edited by AB Smith
>and DJ Batten.  374 pp; 66 pls; 33 text-figs.  ISBN 0-901702-78-1; ISSN
>0962-5321.  Published by The Palaeontological Association; price £14.00,
>$28.00, €28.00.  Available from <palass@palass.org> and:
>
>Tim Palmer
>
>
>
>Dr Tim Palmer C.Geol., F.G.S.
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