Receptaculitids are extinct high-level fossils that provide a window into the history of life. After the discovery and analysis of a deposit of phosphatized receptaculitids on the Baltic Sea island of Öland, the authors conclude that receptaculitids possess an attribute not found in any other group of organisms, living or fossil.
- ISBN13 9780306462016
- Publish Date 31 August 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Springer Science+Business Media
- Imprint Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
- Edition 1999 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 241
- Language English