Table of Contents

Phylogeny and Systematics.- Phylogenetic Practices Among Scholars of Fossil Cephalopods, with Special Reference to Cladistics.- Patterns of Embryonic Development in Early to Middle Devonian Ammonoids.- Conch Form Analysis, Variability, Morphological Disparity, and Mode of Life of the Frasnian (Late Devonian) Ammonoid Manticoceras from Coumiac (Montagne Noire, France).- GONIAT – The Current State of the Paleontological Database System on Paleozoic Ammonoids.- Ornamental Polymorphism in Placenticeras kaffrarium (Ammonoidea; Upper Cretaceous of India): Evolutionary Implications.- A Late Carboniferous Coleoid Cephalopod from the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte (USA), with a Radula, Arm Hooks, Mantle Tissues, and Ink.- On the Species Status of Spirula spirula (Linné, 1758) (Cephalopoda): A New Approach Based on Divergence of Amino Acid Sequences Between the Canaries and New Caledonia.- Morphology of Soft and Hard Tissues.- Understanding Ammonoid Sutures: New Insight into the Dynamic Evolution of Paleozoic Suture Morpholog.- Cameral Membranes in Carboniferous and Permian Goniatites: Description and Relationship to Pseudosutures.- Soft-tissue Attachment of Middle Triassic Ceratitida from Germany.- The Preservation of Body Tissues, Shell, and Mandibles in the Ceratitid Ammonoid Austrotrachyceras (Late Triassic), Austria.- Connecting Ring Ultrastructure in the Jurassic Ammonoid Quenstedtoceras with Discussion on Mode of Life of Ammonoids.- Jaws and Radula of Baculites from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of North America.- Ultrastructural Analyses on the Conotheca of the Genus Belemnotheutis (Belemnitida: Coleoidea).- Biogeography, Biostratigraphy, Ecology, and Taphonomy.- New Data on the Clymeniid Faunas of the Urals and Kazakhstan.- Deformities in the Late Callovian (Late MiddleJurassic) Ammonite Fauna from Saratov, Russia.- Biogeography of Kutch Ammonites During the Latest Jurassic (Tithonian) and a Global Paleobiogeograph Overview.- Ammonite Touch Marks in Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Santonian) Deposits of the Western Interior Sea.- Some Data on the Distribution and Biology of the Boreal Clubhook Squid Moroteuthis robusta (Verrill, 1876) (Onychoteuthidae, Teuthida) in the Northwest Pacific.- Habitat Ecology of Enteroctopus dofleini from Middens and Live Prey Surveys in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

About the Author

Neil H. Landman: Curator-in-Charge, Invertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History; PhD, Yale University, 1982; Researcher in ammonoid paleobiology, systematics, and biostratigraphy. Richard Arnold Davis: Professor of Biology and Geology, College of Mount St. Joseph; PhD, The University of Iowa, 1968; Researcher in the biology and taphonomy of fossil and present day cephalopods. Royal H. Mapes: Professor Emeritus, Ohio University; PhD, The University of Iowa, 1977; Researcher in cephalopod systematics, phylogeny, taphonomy, and paleobiology

Reviews

From the reviews: "Cephalopods Present and Past is a well-edited volume whose content is based on a 2004 conference. … The chapters, written by an international group of scientists, essentially constitute review papers in a specialized subset of paleontology. As such, these chapters will be required reading for specialists. … This book will be important for libraries that maintain a research collection in invertebrate paleontology or invertebrate zoology. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through professionals." (P. K. Strother, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (11), August, 2008)