TY - JOUR
AU1 - GLAESSNER, M. F.
AB -  (Received 28 December 1961) CONTENTS I. The fossil record . . . 11. Hypotheses concerning the rarity of Pre-Cambrian fossils . . 111. Pre-Cambrian ‘pseudofossils’ . IV. Bacteria . . . . V. Stromatolites . . . VI. Plant remains and other microscopic fossils preserved as organic . . . matter PAGE 468 470 47’ 47’ VII. Metazoa . . . . VIII. Trails and burrows . . IX. The Late Pre-Cambrian Ediacara fauna and its equivalents . . X. The earliest Cambrian fossils XI. Summary . . . . . XII. References . . . . PAGE . . . XIII. Addendum I. THE FOSSIL RECORD Since Darwin’s time the total number of recorded fossils has grown enormously, and so has their importance as documents of the real history of the organic world. Many previously missing links in the documentation of the course of evolution have been found. The discovery of some of them had been predicted by comparative anatomists and embryologists. Some fossils are truly transitional between major existing groups so that their classification in the framework of established systematics is difficult. Fossils enable us to trace the evolution of vertebrates as far back as the 
TI - PRE‐CAMBRIAN FOSSILS
JF - Biological Reviews
DO - 10.1111/j.1469-185X.1962.tb01331.x
DA - 1962-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/pre-cambrian-fossils-P54I57U0TM
SP - 467
VL - 37
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -