Webby / Paris / Droser The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-231-50163-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 279 mm

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

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Webby, Barry

Paris, Florentin

Droser, Mary

Percival, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Scaling Of Ordovician Time, And Measures For Assessing Biodiversity Change
Introduction, by Barry D. Webby and Florentin Paris
Conspectus Of The Ordovician World
Stratigraphic Framework and Time Slices, by Barry D. Webby, Roger A. Cooper, Stig M. Bergstr?m and Florentin Paris
Taxonomic Groups
Calibration of the Ordovician Time Scale, by Peter M. Sadler and Roger A. Cooper
Aspects Of The Ordovician Radiation
Measures of Biodiversity, by Roger A. Cooper
Major Terranes in the Ordovician, by L. Robin M. Cocks and Trond H. Torsvik
Isotopic Signatures, by Graham A. Shields and J·n Veizer
Ordovician Oceans and Climate, by Christopher R. Barnes
Was there an Ordovician Superplume Event?, by Christopher R. Barnes
End-Ordovician Glaciation, by Patrick J. Brenchley
Sea-level Changes - a Baltoscandian Perspective, by Arne Thorsh¯j Nielson
Radiolarians, by Paula J. Noble and Taniel Danelian
Sponges, by Marcelo Carrera and J. Keith Rigby
Stromatoporoids, by Barry D. Webby
Conulariids, by Heyo Van Iten and Zdenka Brabcov·
Corals, by Barry D. Webby, Robert J. Elias, Graham A. Young, Bj?rn E.E. Neuman and Dimitri
Bryozoans, by Paul D Taylor and Andrej Ernst
Brachiopods, by David A.T. Harper, L. Robin M. Cocks, Leonid E. Popov, Peter M. Sheehan, Michael
Polyplacophoran and Symmetrical Univalve Molluscs, by Lesley Cherns, David M. Rohr and JirÌ Fryda
Gastropods, by JirÌ Fryda and David M. Rohr
Rostroconch and Bivalve Molluscs, by John C.W. Cope
Nautiloid Cephalopods, by Robert C. Frey, Matilde S. Beresi, David H. Evans, Alan H. King and Ian G. Perci
Tube-Shaped Incertae Sedis, by John M. Malinky, Mark A. Wilson, Lars E. Holmer and Hubert Lardeux
Worms, Worm-like and Sclerite-bearing Taxa, by Olle Hints, Mats Eriksson, Anette E.S. H?gstr?m, Petr Kraft and Oliver Lehnert
Trilobites, by Jonathan M. Adrain, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Richard A. Fortey, ÿyvind Hammer, John
Eurypterids, Phyllocarids and Ostracodes, by Simon J. Braddy, Victor P. Tollerton Jr., Patrick Racheboeuff, and Roger Schallr
Asterozoan, Echinozoan, Blastozoan, Crinozoan and Homalozoan Echinoderms, by James Sprinkle and Thomas E. Guensburg
Graptolites: Patterns of Diversity across Paleolatitudes, by Roger A. Cooper, J?rg Maletz, Lindsey Taylor and Jan Zalasiewicz
Chitinozoans, by Florentin Paris, AÔcha Achab, Esther Asselin, Xiao-hong Chen, Jaak NÐlvak, Yngve
Conodonts: Lower-Middle Ordovician Record, by Guillermo L. Albanesi and Stig M. Bergstr?m
Vertebrates (Agnathans and Gnathostomes), by Susan Turner, Alain Blieck and Godfrey S. Nowlan
Receptaculitids and Algae, by Matthew H. Nitecki, Barry D. Webby, Nils Spjeldnaes and Yong-yi Zhen
Acritarchs, by Thomas Servais, Jun Li, Ludovic Stricanne, Marco Vecoli and Reed Wicander
Miospores and the Emergence of Land Plants, by Phillippe Steemans and Charles Wellman
The Ichnologic Record of the Ordovician Radiation, by M. Gabriela M·ngano and Mary L. Droser
The Ordovician Radiation: Towards a New Global Synthesis, by Arnold I. Miller

Über Autor(innen)

Barry D. Webby is a senior paleontologist at the Center for Ecostratigraphy & Paleobiology at Macquarie University, Sydney. Florentin Paris is a CNRS research director in geosciences at the University of Rennes, France. Mary L. Droser is a professor in the Department of Earth Science, University of California, Riverside. Ian G. Percival is chief paleontologist at the Geological Survey of New South Wales, Australia.