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xi xi Pinhead fossils. vi 1.1 Hinde’s proof. 29 2.1 The solution to the black shales dispute. 56 3.1 Schmidt’s fish. 68 3.2 Scott’s conodont assemblages. 72 4.1 Hass’s journey into the anatomy of the fossil. 83 5.1 Hass’s compromise. 112 6.1 Walliser, Lindström, Ziegler, and Müller. 127 7.1 Helms’s iconic evolutionary chart. 145 7.2 Müller’s oddities. 150 8.1 RexroadandNicoll’sfusedconodontclusters. 167 8.2 Sweet and Bergström. 170 9.1 Modeling the ecology of the animal. 205 10.1 Fåhræus’s choreography. 218 10.2 Jeppsson’s oceanic models. 228 11.1 The beast of Bear Gulch. 237 12.1 Müller and Nogami’s art. 270 12.2 Lindström’s imagined animals. 276 12.3 Conway Morris’s animal. 278 12.4 Conodont teeth. 282 12.5 Conodont filters. 286 13.1 The conodont animal. 302 14.1 Briggs and Aldridge. 330 14.2 Alien jaws. 348 14.3 Theconodontanimalasitisimaginedtoday. 350 Illustrations ...

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