[...]... science, whereas the study of Ostracoda adopts a more or less idiographic approach Thus it was realized that our intention comprised two general approaches One fundamental approach is expressed in the words evolutionary biology and is especially intended to extend evolutionary biology into the geological past utilising Ostracoda Taking advantage of their ideal characteristics for evolutionary research,... descriptive level, if we trace the history of this methodology back into the time of Linnaeus and consider that our knowledge of Ostracoda was virtually nil at that time, our present knowledge is unexpectedly vast in both space and time; it also includes aspects from many fields of biology and other related sciences, as anyone who has studied Ostracoda knows This knowledge of Ostracoda has been strengthened by... as generalities have known as ‘laws’ in evolutionary biology Even if we defer to the criticism of a strongly idiographic approach, the addition of the words of Ostracoda will, at least, still prevent studies from becoming mere intellectual exercises in the nomothetic and evolutionary disciplines Our other aim is to learn of fundamental studies which can be of vital importance, especially for biostratigraphy... usually in the form of a dendrogram, gave a graphic display of the groupings and closeness or otherwise of the different associations An excellent example, close to the location of our present meeting, can be seen in the work of Ishizaki (1968) on the faunas of Uranouchi Bay on the Pacific Coast of Shikoku In a different field, great progress has been made by means of the detailed study of various morphological... 40, 1-45, 9 pls -1977 Distribution of Ostracoda in the East China Sea-a justification for the existence of the Palaeo-Kuroshio Current in the Late Cenozoic In L ~ F F L E R ,H., and Danielopol, D (eds.) Aspectsof Ecology and Zoogeography of Recent and Fossil Ostracoda, 425-440 Junk, The Hague JONES, T.R 1849 A Monograph of the Entomostraca of the Cretaceous Formation of England Mon Palaeontogr SOC London,... Trachyleberididen-Ornamenten (Ostracoda, Cytheracea) Neues Jb Geol Paliont., Mh., 1969, 390-402 - 1977 Carapace ornamentation of the Ostracoda Cytheracea: Principles of Evolution and its Functional Significance In L ~ F F L E R H., and DANIELOPOL, D (eds.) Aspects of Ecology and Zoogeography of Recent and Fossil , Ostracoda, 107-120 Junk, The Hague MCKENZIE, K.G 1967 The Distribution of Caenozoic Marine Ostracoda from... with the problem of transported material In 1971 he returned to this topic with the reconstruction of the biocoenosis, questions of population structure and constancy, the significance of valve - carapace ratio, and post-mortem transport of valves and carapaces amongst other matters In the same year, Oertli (1971) covered aspects of burial, rate of sedimentation, the significance of separated valves... general meeting of the Houston symposium, when we proposed to invite the next symposium to Shizuoka, Japan, someone asked us about the theme of the upcoming symposium We replied that we intended to focus attention on the evolutionary biology of Ostracoda, its fundamentals and applications On second thought, however, we felt that this theme would be inappropriate because evolutionary biology is a nomothetic... how the chemistry of the shell can be used to obtain information on the environment in which the animal lived (1978b, 1983) Chivas, De Deckker and Shelley (1983) have also investigated the possibility of using the chemistry of the shell to determine certain characteristics of the palaeoenvironment Another aspect of recent work has been the examination of the form and function of the soft parts in Recent... develop theories Recent progress in evolutionary biology seems to have been mainly based on studies of experimental organisms suitable for genetic research, with hardly any fossil evidence Furthermore, theoretical syntheses in the field of evolutionary biology have recently advanced rather rapidly without sufficient palaeontological evidence We believe that Ostracoda are one of the most useful organisms for . lshizaki (Editors) EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY OF OSTRACODA, ITS FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, 1 1 evolutionary biology of I ostracoda its fundamentals. on Ostracoda (9th : 1985 : Shizuoka-shi, Evolutionary biology of Ostracoda : Its fundanentals and Japan) applications : proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Ostracoda. . Ultrastructure of myodocopid shells (Ostracoda) JONES, P. J. Carapace sculpture in Amphissites (Kirkbyacea: Ostracoda) ADAMCZAK, F. J. of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Ostracoda in China Evolution of