文章回顾了竹节石研究发展历程及取得的主要成就,重在梳理竹节石在分类位置、分类方案中存在的主要观点和这些观点中分别存在的问题;总结了竹节石的生活方式和生态学特征及泥盆纪竹节石化石带和谱系演化;讨论了竹节石的灭绝事件;并简要介绍了竹节石的个体发生学近年来取得的进展。指出在竹节石研究过程中存在的主要问题,并对竹节石研究未来进行展望。
The development,major achievements and problems of studies on tentaculitids are discribed.Their systematic position and evolutionary relationships,different views on classification,ecology and palaeoenvironmental significance,together with their biozones in the Devonian and eventual mass extinction are each reviewed;and future prospects for tentaculitid studies are outlined.