Valentine Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns

Profiles in Macroevolution
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5505-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 454 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Here twenty-one leading paleontologists use important refinements in fossil diversity data to provide critical evaluations of older hypotheses of diversification and extinction processes and to propose fresh interpretations.

Originally published in 1986.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Valentine, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Preface, pg. ix
Introduction. Diversity As Data, pg. 1
Chapter 1. An Atlas of Phanerozoic Clade Diversity Diagrams, pg. 11
Chapter 2. Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity: Episodes and Insights, pg. 41
Chapter 3. Patterns in Vascular Land Plant Diversification: An Analysis at the Species Level, pg. 97
Chapter 4. Real and Apparent Trends in Species Richness Through Time, pg. 129
Chapter 5. Evolutionary Faunas and the Distribution of Paleozoic Marine Communities in Space and Time, pg. 153
Chapter 6. Classes and Adaptive Variety: The Ecology of Diversification in Marine Faunas Through the Phanerozoic, pg. 191
Chapter 7. Phanerozoic Tiering in Suspension-Feeding Communities on Soft Substrata: Implications for Diversity, pg. 255
Chapter 8. Nonequilibrium Model of Diversification: Faunal Turnover Dynamics, pg. 277
Chapter 9. Diversification Functions and the Rate of Taxonomic Evolution, pg. 311
Chapter 10. Marine Regressions and Mass Extinctions: A Test Using the Modern Biota, pg. 335
Chapter 11. Modeling the Biogeographic Regulation of Evolutionary Rates, pg. 355
Chapter 12. Testing for Adaptive Radiation: The Ptychaspid (Trilobita) Biomere of the Late Cambrian, pg. 379
Chapter 13. Evolutionary Patterns Of Jurassic And Cretaceous Ammonites: An Analysis Of Clade Shape, pg. 399
Chapter 14. Biotic Diversity and Clade Diversity, pg. 419
Concluding Remark, pg. 425
Author Index, pg. 427
Subject Index, pg. 437