Introduction : principles of morphodynamics -- Fabricational noise in body shapes -- Other fabricational morphospaces -- Bifurcating and intercalating patterns -- Other patterns -- Life styles -- Patterns of evolution versus counter evolution -- Taphonomy -- Protists -- Vendobionts : lost life forms of ediacaran times -- Sponges -- Soft-bottom actinians and jellyfish -- Soft-bottom corals -- Brachiopods : bivalved shells with a difference -- Bivalves I : constructional and morphogenetic principles -- Bivalves II : evolutionary ecology -- Gastropod heteromorphy : or how to get out of the spiral syndrome -- Ammonites I : outer shell and jaws -- How valid is the nautilus model? -- Ammonites II : septal apparatus -- Ammonites III : taphonomy -- Straight cephalopods -- Worm-like organisms -- Trilobites -- Cirripeds : arthropods become sessile -- Echinoids -- Crinoids -- Extinct echinoderms : deviant symmetries and armored tube feet -- Clonal colonies.