Is There Variation In the Microstructure of Ammonite Aptychi?
–> Start | Author Index 260-1 Is There Variation In the Microstructure of Ammonite Aptychi? Tuesday, 7 October 2008: 1:30 PM George R. Brown Convention Center, 351CF Isabelle Kruta, Histoire de la Terre, UMR 5143, Musum National d’Histoire Naturelle (& American Museum of Natural History, NY), Paris, France, Isabelle Rouget, Universit Paris VI, CNRS UMR 5143 Palobiodiversit et paloenvironnements’, Paris, France, Neil H. Landman, Division of Paleontology (Invertebrates), American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, Kazushige Tanabe, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Univ of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and Fabrizio Cecca, Universit Paris VI, CNRS-UMR 5143, Paris Like modern cephalopods, ammonites are equipped with a large buccal apparatus (Meek and Hayden, 1865; Lehmann, 1971). Many studies have speculated about the mode of feeding of ammonites based on the size and shape of the jaws, in comparison with modern species (Hewitt et al. 1993; Michalik, 1996). Other studies have documen
