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The great Ordovician biodiversification event /
Two of the greatest evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth occurred during Early Paleozoic time. The first was the Cambrian explosion of skeletonized marine animals about 540 million years ago. The second was the ""Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, "" which...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2004.
©2004 |
| Colección: | Critical moments in paleobiology and earth history series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Stratigraphic framework and time slices / Barry D. Webby [and others]
- Calibration of the Ordovician timescale / Peter M. Sadler, Roger A. Cooper
- Measures of diversity / Roger A. Cooper
- Major terranes in the Ordovician / L. Robin M. Cocks, Trond H. Torsvik
- Isotopic signatures / Graham A. Shields, Ján Veizer
- Ordovician oceans and climate / Christopher R. Barnes
- Was there an Ordovician superplume event? / Christopher R. Barnes
- End Ordovician glaciation / Patrick J. Brenchley
- Ordovician sea level changes : a Baltoscandian perspective / Arne Thorshøj Nielsen
- Radiolarians / Paula J. Noble, Taniel Danelian
- Sponges / Marcelo G. Carrera, J. Keith Rigby
- Stromatoporoids / Barry D. Webby
- Conulariids / Heyo Van Iten, Zdenka Vyhlasová
- Corals / Barry D. Webby [and others]
- Bryozoans / Paul D. Taylor, Andrej Ernst
- Brachiopods / David A.T. Harper [and others]
- Polyplacophoran and symmetrical univalve mollusks / Lesley Cherns, David M. Rohr, Jiří Frýda
- Gastropods / Jiří Frýda, David M. Rohr
- Bivalve and rostroconch mollusks / John C.W. Cope
- Nautiloid cephalopods / Robert C. Frey [and others]
- Tube-shaped incertae sedis / John M. Malinky [and others]
- Worms, wormlike and sclerite-bearing taxa / Olle Hints [and others]
- Trilobites / Jonathan M. Adrain [and others]
- Eurypterids, phyllocarids, and ostracodes / Simon J. Braddy [and others]
- Crinozoan, blastozoan, echinozoan, asterozoan, and homalozoan echinoderms / James Sprinkle, Thomas E. Guensburg
- Graptolites : patterns of diversity across paleolatitudes / Roger A. Cooper [and others]
- Chitinozoans / Florentin Paris [and others].
- Conodonts : Lower to Middle Ordovician record / Guillermo L. Albanesi, Stig M. Bergström
- Vertebrates (agnathans and gnathostomes) / Susan Turner, Alain Blieck, Godfrey S. Nowlan
- Receptaculitids and algae / Matthew H. Nitecki [and others]
- Acritarchs / Thomas Servais [and others]
- Miospores and the emergence of land plants / Philippe Steemans, Charles H. Wellman
- The ichnologic record of the Ordovician radiation / M. Gabriela Mángano, Mary L. Droser
- The Ordovician radiation : toward a new global synthesis / Arnold I. Miller.