Nautilus: the biology and paleobiology of a living fossil

Topics in Geobiology series treats geobiology -the broad discipline that covers the history of life on Earth.The series aims for high quality, scholarly volumes of original research as well as broad reviews.Recent volumes have showcased a variety of organisms including cephalopods, corals, and rodents.They discuss the biology of these organisms-their ecology, phylogeny, and mode of life -and in addition, their fossil record -their distribution in time and space.Other volumes are more theme based such as predator-prey relationships, skeletal mineralization, paleobiogeography, and approaches to high resolution stratigraphy, that cover a broad range of organisms.One theme that is at the heart of the series is the interplay between the history of life and the changing environment.This is treated in skeletal mineralization and how such skeletons record environmental signals and animal-sediment relationships in the marine environment.