Compte Rendu

The six general topics included here are: Plant Taphonomy and Paleoecology; General Paleobotany; Palynology and Fructifications; General Paleozoology; Paleoecology and Paleogeography; and Bear Gulch Fauna. Among the papers are 11 critical systematic essays on various groups of Chinese Carboniferous fossils. The nearly 60 essays in this volume include: "Paleoecology of the Herrin (No. 6) Coal Member (Middle Pennsylva-nian) in the Illinois Basin: Reproductive Biology and Distribution of "Lepidoden-dron "and "Lepidophloios "by William A. DiMichele and Tom L. Phillips; "On "Cardiopeterium "Nathorst and "Neurop-teris "Brongniart from the (Lower) Missis-sippian Price Formation, Southwestern Virginia" by Patricia G. Gensel; 'A New Species of "Codonotheca" (Medullosaceae, Pteridospermales) from the Upper Penn-sylvanian of Kansas" by Benton M. Stidd and G. A. Leisman; "Well-Preserved Mid-dle and Late Pennsylvanian Radiolaria from Kansas, USA" by Doris E. Nodine--Zeller, Brian K. Holdsworth, and Pieter Berendsen; "Stromatolite Biostrome in the Upper Carboniferous of Northeast Kansas" by R. S. Sawin, R. R. West, and P. C. Twiss; and "A Brief History of Ex-ploration for the Bear Gulch Fauna of Central Montana" by William G. Melton, Jr.