Anthropod Fossils & Phylogeny

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-231-09654-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 347 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 262 mm, Gewicht: 864 g

What light do fossils shed on the deep history of life's most diverse phylum, the Arthropoda? Are the interrelationships between major groups of arthropods crustaceans, chelicerates, and tracheates resolved the same way whether or not fossils are included? How should we combine evidence from extinct and extant taxa? These are the central questions of Arthropod Fossils and Phylogeny.

Many recent controversies in arthropod evolution have been initiated by new fossil discoveries and new interpretations of early fossils. This book examines the role that these finds and ideas have played in understanding the deep evolutionary history of arthropods. The authors of the book's seven chapters have been at the forefront of this research.

Contributions include phylogeny based on DNA sequence data for living groups, cladistic analysis of the major lineages of arthropods, detailed case studies of crustaceans, chelicerates, and lobopodians, and the evolutionary significance of arthropods in Cambrian fossil sites with exceptional preservation. All contributors use cladistic methods, presenting copious new data to stimulate further research.

The book will be a vital resource for paleontologists, researchers on extant arthropods interested in fossil history, and evolutionists concerned with how different kinds of systematic data should be analyzed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edgecombe, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Role of Extinct Taxa in Arthropod Phylogeny, by Gregory D. EdgecombeMolecular Systematics and Arthropods, by Ward WheelerAn Arthropod Phylogeny Based on Fossil and Recent Taxa, by Matthew Wills, Derek E.G. Briggs, Richard Fortey, Mark Wilkinson, Peter SneathCambrian Lobopodians: Morphology and Phylogeny, by Lars Ramskold and Chen JunyuanChengjiang Arthropods and Their Bearing on Early Arthropod Evolution, by Jan Bergstrom and Hou XianguangEarly Arthropod Phylogeny in Light of the Cambrian "Orsten" Fossils, by Dieter Walossek and Klaus J. MullerFossils and the Interrelationships of Major Crustacean Groups, by Frederick Schram and Cees H. J. HofFossil Taxa and Relationships of Chelicerates, by Paul Selden and Jason Dunlop

Über Autor(innen)

Gregory D. Edgecombe is Senior Research Scientist at the Australian Museum, Sydney. He has written many papers on early arthropod (especially trilobite) evolution.