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The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation
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Edited by:
Andrey Zhuravlev
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2000
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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.
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.
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.
Author / Editor information
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.
Robert Riding is at the Department of Earth Sciences of Cardiff University in Wales.
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Goes a long way towards filling a major gap in the available palaeontological literature.... Every library should have a copy, as should anyone seriously interested in life in the Cambrian.
Certainly grabs one's attention.... brings a great deal of information together under a single cover... invaluable.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction
1 - PART I. The Environment
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2. Paleomagnetically and Tectonically Based Global Maps for Vendian to Mid-Ordovician Time
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3. Global Facies Distributions from Late Vendian to Mid-Ordovician
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4. Did Supercontinental Amalgamation Trigger the “Cambrian Explosion”?
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5. Climate Change at the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Transition
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6. Australian Early and Middle Cambrian Sequence Biostratigraphy with Implications for Species Diversity and Correlation
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7. The Cambrian Radiation and the Diversification of Sedimentary Fabrics
137 - PART II. Community Patterns and Dynamics
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8. Biotic Diversity and Structure During the Neoproterozoic-Ordovician Transition
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9. Ecology and Evolution of Cambrian Plankton
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10. Evolution of Shallow-Water Level-Bottom Communities
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11. Evolution of the Hardground Community
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12. Ecology and Evolution of Cambrian Reefs
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13. Evolution of the Deep-Water Benthic Community
275 - PART III. Ecologic Radiation of Major Groups of Organisms
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14. Sponges, Cnidarians, and Ctenophores
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15. Mollusks, Hyoliths, Stenothecoids, and Coeloscleritophorans
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16. Brachiopods
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17. Ecologic Evolution of Cambrian Trilobites
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18. Ecology of Nontrilobite Arthropods and Lobopods in the Cambrian
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19. Ecologic Radiation of Cambro-Ordovician Echinoderms
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20. Calcified Algae and Bacteria
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21. Molecular Fossils Demonstrate Precambrian Origin of Dinoflagellates
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Contributors
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Index
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November 23, 2000
eBook ISBN:
9780231505161
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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536
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110
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110 illus.
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9780231505161
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