The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal

by Simon J. Knell

Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." This animal confounded science for more than a century. Some thought it a slug, others a fish, a worm, a plant, even a primitive ancestor of ourselves. The list of possibilities grew and yet an answer to the riddle never seemed any nearer. Would the animal that left behind these miniscule fossils known as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025300604X
• ISBN13: 9780253006042
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher