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Document Type
Research
Abstract
Vertebrate paleontology concerns itself mainly with bones. Seldom is there any fossilized remnant of other structures. Vertebrate paleoecology has a task like that of Ezekiel, to "make those dry bones live," to try to reconstruct from the data available the habitat, the mode of life, and the associations of these creatures of the past. Unfortunately we are seldom able to accomplish our task by Ezekiel's method of "prophesying." There is call for a good play of imagination in the task and sometimes it is difficult to draw a line between what we like to call "scientific imagination" and the garden variety.
Publication Date
1950
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
57
Issue
1
First Page
491
Last Page
497
Copyright
©1950 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Robertson, George M.
(1950)
"Some Paleoecoloical Speculations Regarding the Earliest Vertebrates,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 57(1), 491-497.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol57/iss1/71