Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. PART I. The Environment
6. 2. Paleomagnetically and Tectonically Based Global Maps for Vendian to Mid-Ordovician Time 11
7. 3. Global Facies Distributions from Late Vendian to Mid-Ordovician 47
8. 4. Did Supercontinental Amalgamation Trigger the “Cambrian Explosion”? 69
9. 5. Climate Change at the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Transition 90
10. 6. Australian Early and Middle Cambrian Sequence Biostratigraphy with Implications for Species Diversity and Correlation 107
11. 7. The Cambrian Radiation and the Diversification of Sedimentary Fabrics 137
12. PART II. Community Patterns and Dynamics
13. 8. Biotic Diversity and Structure During the Neoproterozoic-Ordovician Transition 173
14. 9. Ecology and Evolution of Cambrian Plankton 200
15. 10. Evolution of Shallow-Water Level-Bottom Communities 217
16. 11. Evolution of the Hardground Community 238
17. 12. Ecology and Evolution of Cambrian Reefs 254
18. 13. Evolution of the Deep-Water Benthic Community 275
19. PART III. Ecologic Radiation of Major Groups of Organisms
20. 14. Sponges, Cnidarians, and Ctenophores 301
21. 15. Mollusks, Hyoliths, Stenothecoids, and Coeloscleritophorans 326
22. 16. Brachiopods 350
23. 17. Ecologic Evolution of Cambrian Trilobites 370
24. 18. Ecology of Nontrilobite Arthropods and Lobopods in the Cambrian 404
25. 19. Ecologic Radiation of Cambro-Ordovician Echinoderms 428
26. 20. Calcified Algae and Bacteria 445
27. 21. Molecular Fossils Demonstrate Precambrian Origin of Dinoflagellates 474
28. Contributors 495
29. Index 499