Review of: Heteromorph: The Rarest Fossil Ammonites, Nature at its Most Bizarre. by Wolfgang Grul- ke,

摘要

I balked when first invited to review the stunning, lavishly illustrated tome on heteromorph ammonites by Wolfgang Grulke; after all, despite a lifetime dedicated to mollusks, I am neither a paleontologist nor "cephalopo-dologist." After a brief perusal of the volume, however, I decided I really wanted to know more about the subject and write about the book. One of the concepts that makes this book so attractive in the first place is that author Grulke, through the judicious choice of interrelated topics to construct the book's different sections, renders his choice of a rather specialized topic into a delightful and well-structured volume.