| Description |
vi, 525 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Perspectives in paleobiology and earth history series |
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Critical moments in paleobiology and earth history series |
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Perspectives in paleobiology and earth history series.
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Critical moments in paleobiology and earth history series.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev -- Paleomagnetically and tectonically based global maps for Vendian to mid-Ordovician time / Alan G. Smith -- Global facies distributions from late Vendian to mid-Ordovician / Kirill B. Seslavinsky, Irina D. Maidanskaya -- Did supercontinental amalgamation trigger the "Cambrian Explosion"? / Martin D. Brasier, John F. Lindsay -- Climate change at the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition / Toni T. Eerola -- Australian early and middle Cambrian sequence biostratigraphy with implications for species diversity and correlation / David I. Gravestock, John H. Shergold -- The Cambrian radiation and the diversification of sedimentary fabrics / Mary L. Droser, Xing Li -- Biotic diversity and structure during the Neoproterozoic-Ordovician transition / Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev -- Ecology and evolution of Cambrian plankton / Nicholas J. Butterfield -- Evolution of shallow-water level-bottom communities / Mikhail B. Burzin, Francoise Debrenne, Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev -- Evolution of the Hardground Community / Sergei V. Rozhnov -- Ecology and evolution of Cambrian reefs / Brian R. Pratt, Ben R. Spincer, Rachel A. Wood -- Evolution of the deep-water Benthic community / T. Peter Crimes -- Sponges, cnidarians, and ctenophores / Francoise Debrenne, Joachim Reitner -- Mollusks, hyoliths, stenothecoids, and coeloscleritophorans / Artem V. Kouchinsky -- Brachiopods / Galina T. Ushatinskaya -- Ecologic evolution of Cambrian trilobites / Nigel C. Hughes -- Ecology of nontrilobite arthropods and lobopods in the Cambrian / Graham E. Budd -- Ecologic radiation of Cambro-Ordovician echinoderms / Thomas E. Guensburg, James Sprinkle -- Calcified algae and bacteria / Robert Riding -- Molecular fossils demonstrate Precambrian origin of dinoflagellates / J. Michael Moldowan, Stephen R. Jacobson, Jeremy Dahl |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Paleoecology -- Cambrian.
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Paleontology -- Cambrian.
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Geology, Stratigraphic -- Cambrian.
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| Author |
Zhuravlev, A. I͡U. (Andreĭ I͡Urʹevich)
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Riding, Robert.
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| LC no. |
00063901 |
| ISBN |
0231106122 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231106130 paperback alkaline paper |
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