UID:
edocfu_9958351817902883
Format:
1 online resource :
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110 illus.
ISBN:
9780231505161
Series Statement:
The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology
Content:
The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation offers a comprehensive and surprising picture of the Earth at that ancient time. The book contains contributions from thirty-three authors hailing from ten countries and will be of interest to paleontologists, geologists, biologists, and other researchers interested in the global Earth-life system.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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1. Introduction --
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PART I. The Environment --
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2. Paleomagnetically and Tectonically Based Global Maps for Vendian to Mid-Ordovician Time --
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3. Global Facies Distributions from Late Vendian to Mid-Ordovician --
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4. Did Supercontinental Amalgamation Trigger the “Cambrian Explosion”? --
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5. Climate Change at the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Transition --
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6. Australian Early and Middle Cambrian Sequence Biostratigraphy with Implications for Species Diversity and Correlation --
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7. The Cambrian Radiation and the Diversification of Sedimentary Fabrics --
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PART II. Community Patterns and Dynamics --
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8. Biotic Diversity and Structure During the Neoproterozoic-Ordovician Transition --
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9. Ecology and Evolution of Cambrian Plankton --
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10. Evolution of Shallow-Water Level-Bottom Communities --
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11. Evolution of the Hardground Community --
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12. Ecology and Evolution of Cambrian Reefs --
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13. Evolution of the Deep-Water Benthic Community --
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PART III. Ecologic Radiation of Major Groups of Organisms --
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14. Sponges, Cnidarians, and Ctenophores --
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15. Mollusks, Hyoliths, Stenothecoids, and Coeloscleritophorans --
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16. Brachiopods --
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17. Ecologic Evolution of Cambrian Trilobites --
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18. Ecology of Nontrilobite Arthropods and Lobopods in the Cambrian --
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19. Ecologic Radiation of Cambro-Ordovician Echinoderms --
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20. Calcified Algae and Bacteria --
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21. Molecular Fossils Demonstrate Precambrian Origin of Dinoflagellates --
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Contributors --
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Index
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/zhur10612
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