Re: paleonet Optocentrism alert: 'Fossils of the Chalk' publishedtoday

[Mark Purnell <map2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This was not meant as a serious criticism of the volume, I am sure, but the 
key to this apparent omission lies in the title of the series:
'Field Guides to Fossils'

I can't speak for all micropalaeontologists, but I don't usually identify them in the field.

Mark

--On Thursday, August 22, 2002 9:51 am -0700 John Van Couvering <vanc@amnh.org> wrote:

> 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.
>> Executive Officer, The Palaeontological Association
>> I.G.E.S., University of Wales
>> Aberystwyth SY23 3DB
>> Wales, U.K.
>>
>> Phone/Answerphone: +44 (0) 1970 627107
>> Fax: +44 (0) 1970 622659
>> Secretary: +44 (0) 1970 622643
>> E-mail: palass@palass.org
>> Web: www.palass.org
>
>



Dr Mark A. Purnell
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University of Leicester
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