The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-231-10613-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 916 g

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

The Cambrian radiation was the explosive evolution of marine life that started 550,000,000 years ago. It ranks as one of the most important episodes in Earth history. This key event in the history of life on our planet changed the marine biosphere and its sedimentary environment forever, requiring a complex interplay of wide-ranging biologic and nonbiologic processes.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhuravlev, Andrey

Riding, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläoökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläobotanik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Terrestrische Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Exobiologie, Astrobiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Exobiologie, Astrobiologie, Xenobiologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Soziobiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeres- und Süßwasserökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläozoologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev and Robert RidingI. The Environment2. Paleomagnetically and Tectonically Based Global Maps for Vendian to Mid-Ordovician Time, by Alan G. Smith3. Global Facies Distributions from Late Vendian to Mid-Ordovician, by Kirill B. Seslavinsky and Irina D. Maidanskaya4. Did Supercontinental Amalgamation Trigger the "Cambrian Explosion"?, by Martin D. Brasier and John F. Lindsay5. Climate Change at the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Transition, by Toni T. Eerola6. Australian Early and Middle Cambrian Sequence Biostratigraphy with Implications for Species Diversity and Correlation, by David I. Gravestock and John H. Shergold7. The Cambrian Radiation and the Diversification of Sedimentary Fabrics, by Mary L. Droser and Xing LiII. Community Patterns and Dynamics8. Biotic Diversity and Structure During the Neoproterozoic-Ordovician Transition, by Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev9. Ecology and Evolution of Cambrian Plankton, by Nicholas J. Butterfield10. Evolution of Shallow-Water Level-Bottom Commuties, by Mikhail B. Burzin, Françoise Debrenne, and Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev11. Evolution of the Hardground Community, by Sergei V. Rozhnov12. Ecology and Evolution of the Cambrian Reefs, by Brian R. Pratt, Ben R. Spincer, Rachel A. Wood, and Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev13. Evolution of the Deep-Water Benthic Community, by T. Peter CrimesIII. Ecologic Radiation of Major Groups of Organisms14. Sponges, Cnidarians, and Ctenophores, by Françoise Debrenne and Joachim Reitner15. Mollusks, Hyoliths, Stenothecoids, and Coeloscleritophorans, by Arten V. Kouchinsky16. Brachiopods, by Galina T. Ushatinskaya17. Ecologic Evolution of Cambrian Trilobites, by Nigel C. Hughes18. Ecology of Nontrilobite Arthropods and Lobopods in the Cambrian, by Graham E. Budd19. Ecologic Radiation of Cambro-Ordovician Echinoderms, by Thomas E. Guensburg and James Sprinkle20. Calcified Algae and Bacteria, by Robert Riding21. Molecular Fossils Demonstrate Precambrian Origin of Dinoflagellates, by J. M. Moldowan, S. Jacobson, J. Dahl, A. Al-Hajji, B. Huizinga, and F. FagoList of ContributorsIndex

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.