Special Papers in Palaeontology, Conodont Biology and Phylogeny

Mark A. Purnell is Professor of Geology at the University of Leicester. Philip C.J. Donoghue is Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.Both are members of The Palaeontological Association.

• Preface (Mark A. Purnell and Philip C. J. Donoghue). Between Death and Data: Biases in Interpretation of the Fossil Record of Conodonts (Mark A. Purnell and Philip C. J. Donoghue).Modes of Growth in the Euconodont Oral Skeleton: Implications for Bias and Completeness in the Fossil Record (Howard A. Armstrong).An Experimental Investigation of Post-depositional Taphonomic Bias in Conodonts (Peter H. Von Bitter and Mark A. Purnell).Biases in the Recovery and Interpretation of Micropalaeontological Data (Lennart Jeppsson).Multielement Conodont Apparatuses of Triassic Gondolelloidea (Michael J. Orchard).Silurian Conodont Biostratigraphy and Palaeobiology in Stratigraphic Sequences (James E. Barrick and Peep Mannik).Cambro-Ordovician Sea-level Fluctuations and Sequence Boundaries: The Missing Record and the Evolution of New Taxa (Oliver Lehnert, James F. Miller, Steven A. Leslie, John E. Repetski and Raymond l. Ethington).Graphical Refinement of the Conodont Database: Examples and a Plea (Walter C. Sweet).The Likelihood of Stratophenetic-based Hypotheses of Genealogical Succession (Peter D. Roopnarine).The Chronophyletic Approach: Stratophenetics Facing an Incomplete Fossil Record (Jerzy Dzik).Cladograms, Phylogenies and the Veracity of the Conodont Fossil Record (Linda M. Wickstrom and Philip C. J. Donoghue).