S. ANANTHARAMAN, G. P. WILSON, D. C. DAS SARMA, W. A. CLEMENS, Palaeontology Division, Geological Survey of India, Hyderabad, 500-068 India, [email protected]; Corresponding author, Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard., Denver, Colorado 80205-5798 U.S.A., [email protected]; Museum of Paleontology and Department of Integrative Biology, ...

Beginning with this issue, the Journal of Paleontology will be publishing an occasional section entitled ‘‘View from the Field’’. ‘‘View from the Field’’ will provide a forum for concise commentary on current issues in paleontology, including but not limited to discussion of methods, important new discoveries, and major conceptual advances. Contributions should be brief (no more than 12 double-...

Photo: Liwang Jin, Xinhua News Agency. Zhonghe Zhou began his career at Nanjing University in 1982, studying paleontology and stratigraphy. He received a Master of Science from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), after which he went on to work at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) CAS in Beijing, before attending graduate school at th...

ABTRACT--Available museum collections have been utilised for a functional analysis of common members of the bivalve fauna of the Cretaceous Chalk Formation of England. It is concluded that many members of the fauna were able to inhabit their unusual environment by virtue of specialised adaptations. There is an apparent paucity of infaunal bivalves in true Chalk lithology, and the fauna is domin...

It is easily seen that the Kasner circle, mentioned in I, shrinks to a point. Thus II loses its meaning, the derivative clock being merely a point. But III' does not become meaningless. For the associated affinity T reduces to the functional relation between the points of a neighborhood of z and the corresponding values of w'(z). Thus the assertion that T is a direct similarity says exactly tha...