The ecology of the Cambrian radiation /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Zhuravlev, A. I͡U. (Andreĭ I͡Urʹevich), doktor biologicheskikh nauk, Riding, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]
Series:Critical moments in paleobiology and earth history series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev and Robert Riding
  • 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 and Irina D. Maidanskaya
  • Did supercontinental amalgamation trigger the "Cambrian Explosion"? / Martin D. Brasier and 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 and John H. Shergold
  • The Cambrian radiation and the diversification of sedimentary fabrics / Mary L. Droser and 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, Françoise Debrenne and 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, and Andrey Yu. Zhuralev
  • Evolution of the deep-water benthic community / T. Peter Crimes
  • Sponges, cnidarians, and ctenophores / Françoise Debrenne and 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 and James Sprinkle
  • Calcified algae and bacteria / Robert Riding
  • Molecular fossils demonstrate Precambrian origin of dinoflagellates / J. Michael Moldowan, Stephen R. Jacobson, Jeremy Dahl, Adnan Al-Hajji, Bradley J. Huizinga, and Frederick J. Fago.