List of Contributors

Introduction: Adequacy versus Incompleteness

1. Adequacy, Completeness and the Fossil Record

Christopher R.C. Paul

2. Determining Stratigraphic Ranges

Charles R. Marshall

3. Resolution of the Fossil Record: The Fidelity of Preservation

David M. Martill

4. The Completeness of the Pleistocene Fossil Record: Implications for Stratigraphic Adequacy

Benjamin J. Greenstein

John M. Pandolfi

H. Allen Curran

5. An Overview of the Completeness of the Fossil Record

Christopher R.C. Paul

Stephen K. Donovan

6. Fossil Soils and Completeness of the Rock and Fossil Records

Gregory J. Retallack

7. Phylogenetic Analyses and the Quality of the Fossil Record

Peter J. Wagner

8. `Taxonomic Barriers' and Other Distortions within the Fossil Record

Carl F. Koch

9. Patterns of Occurrence of Benthic Foraminifera in Time and Space

Stephen J. Culver

Martin A. Buzas

10. The Fossil Record of Cheilostome Bryozoa in the Neogene and Quaternary of Tropical America: Adequacy for Phylogenetic and Evolutionary Studies

Alan H. Cheetham

Jeremy B.C. Jackson

11. The Fossil Record of Bivalve Molluscs

Elizabeth M. Harper

12. The Quality of the Fossil Record of the Vertebrates

Michael J. Benton

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Systematic index