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Catalogus Fossilium Austriae. Band 2. Echinoidea Neogenica

Book Review

¹ Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology California Academy of Sciences 875 Howard Street San Francisco 94103-3009 <rmooi@calacademy.org>

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Catalogus Fossilium Austriae. Band 2. Echinoidea Neogenica. Andreas Kroh. 2005. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 210 p., 82 pls., pb. ISBN 3-7001-3491-6 (printed edition), ISBN 3-7001-3560-2 (online edition).

Many types of sea urchins fossilize well, with preservation of minute details. Fossil echinoids are therefore of great scientific value. From them, much can be learned about past environmental conditions, biogeography, and biodiversity. However, echinoids are also objects of great beauty, holding fascination at both macroscopic and microscopic inspection. In spite of the rather dry, ancient-sounding title, this book captures much of this scientific and aesthetic fascination. It is also an object lesson in how to do taxonomic monography in a time when this activity is regarded by many bandwagon-jumping peers as something to be left in their dust. A monograph of this kind should put that attitude where it belongs. Long after trendy works in current vogue have had their electronic and paper corpora fully recycled, solid books like the Catalogus will continue to be consulted for . . . [Full Text of this Article]