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BASSETT, M. G. & DEISLER, V. K. (eds) 2006. Studies in Palaeozoic Palaeontology.

National Museum of Wales Geological Series no. 25. 294 pp. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales. Price £19.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 7200 0550 7.

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This volume contains five papers, much of the research involved having been done by staff of the National Museum of Wales or by visiting scientists working in the Museum. One paper is on graptolites, two are on brachiopods and two on trilobites, and of the five papers, one is concerned with Cambrian and three with Ordovician faunas. Even though these groups of fossils are of great importance to Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy, whose birthplace might be regarded as Wales and the Welsh Borderlands, the present contributions are of international rather than local scope, and deal with fossils from such regions as Australia, Siberia, Iran, Kazakhstan and North America.

The first paper, by R. B. Rickards & P. N. Durman, is especially notable. It concentrates on the neglected subject of Cambrian graptolites (Hemichordata). The authors have brought together an astonishing array of specimens from several continents and provided a very informative review of the topic. The various previously recorded species are reviewed and placed in stratigraphical context and the authors . . . [Full Text of this Article]