Zhuravlev / Riding The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-231-50516-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 536 Seiten

Reihe: The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhuravlev, Andrey

Riding, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev and Robert Riding
I. The Environment
2. Paleomagnetically and Tectonically Based Global Maps for Vendian to Mid-Ordovician Time, by Alan G. Smith
3. Global Facies Distributions from Late Vendian to Mid-Ordovician, by Kirill B. Seslavinsky and Irina D. Maidanskaya
4. Did Supercontinental Amalgamation Trigger the "Cambrian Explosion"?, by Martin D. Brasier and John F. Lindsay
5. Climate Change at the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Transition, by Toni T. Eerola
6. Australian Early and Middle Cambrian Sequence Biostratigraphy with Implications for Species Diversity and Correlation, by David I. Gravestock and John H. Shergold
7. The Cambrian Radiation and the Diversification of Sedimentary Fabrics, by Mary L. Droser and Xing Li
II. Community Patterns and Dynamics
8. Biotic Diversity and Structure During the Neoproterozoic-Ordovician Transition, by Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev
9. Ecology and Evolution of Cambrian Plankton, by Nicholas J. Butterfield
10. Evolution of Shallow-Water Level-Bottom Commuties, by Mikhail B. Burzin, Françoise Debrenne, and Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev
11. Evolution of the Hardground Community, by Sergei V. Rozhnov
12. Ecology and Evolution of the Cambrian Reefs, by Brian R. Pratt, Ben R. Spincer, Rachel A. Wood, and Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev
13. Evolution of the Deep-Water Benthic Community, by T. Peter Crimes
III. Ecologic Radiation of Major Groups of Organisms
14. Sponges, Cnidarians, and Ctenophores, by Françoise Debrenne and Joachim Reitner
15. Mollusks, Hyoliths, Stenothecoids, and Coeloscleritophorans, by Arten V. Kouchinsky
16. Brachiopods, by Galina T. Ushatinskaya
17. Ecologic Evolution of Cambrian Trilobites, by Nigel C. Hughes
18. Ecology of Nontrilobite Arthropods and Lobopods in the Cambrian, by Graham E. Budd
19. Ecologic Radiation of Cambro-Ordovician Echinoderms, by Thomas E. Guensburg and James Sprinkle
20. Calcified Algae and Bacteria, by Robert Riding
21. Molecular Fossils Demonstrate Precambrian Origin of Dinoflagellates, by J. M. Moldowan, S. Jacobson, J. Dahl, A. Al-Hajji, B. Huizinga, and F. Fago
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrey Yu Zhuravlev is at the Palaeontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

Robert Riding is at the Department of Earth Sciences of Cardiff University in Wales.