Origin and early evolution of the Metazoa /

This text for the graduate or advanced undergraduate student assembles the latest information summarizing regional, systematic, and theoretical aspects of the early metazoa. The work consists of articles written by experts from around the world and includes literature from Russia and China translate...

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Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Lipps, Jere H., 1939-, Signor, Philip W.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Plenum Press, [1992]
Series:	Topics in geobiology ; v. 10.
Subjects:	Evolutionary paleobiology. Metazoa. Paleontology > Cambrian. Paleontology > Precambrian. Ontwikkeling (proces) Evolutie. Évolution (biologie) Métazoaires. Cambrien. Précambrien. Paléobiologie. Vielzeller. Präkambrium. Aufsatzsammlung. Kambrium. Cambrian Geologic Period. Paleontology. Precambrian Geologic Period. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Origin and early radiation of the Metazoa / Philip W. Signor and Jere H. Lipps
Faunas and facies : fact and artifact : paleoenvironmental controls on the distribution of Early Cambrian faunas / Jeffrey F. Mount and Philip W. Signor
Biological and biogeochemical preludes to the Ediacaran radiation / Andrew H. Knoll
Vendian faunas and the early evolution of Metazoa / M.A. Fedonkin
Functional and ecological aspects of Ediacaran assemblages / Richard J.F. Jenkins
The record of trace fossils across the Proterozoic-Cambrian boundary / Thomas Peter Grimes
The Lower Cambrian fossil record of the Soviet Union / Alexei Yu. Rozanov and Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev
Lower Cambrian of southeastern Newfoundland : epeirogeny and Lazurus faunas, lithofacies-biofacies linkages, and the myth of a global chronostratigraphy / Ed Landing
The Lower Cambrian fossil record of China / Jiang Zhi-Wen
The Early Cambrian radiation of arthropods / Derek E.G. Briggs and Richard A. Fortey
Radiation of Echinodermata / James Sprinkle
The Cambrian radiation of brachiopods / Leonid Ye. Popov
Diversification of Archaeocyatha / Françoise Debrenne
Early radiation of biomineralizing phyla / Stefan Bengston and Simon Conway Morris
Paleoceanography and changes in the biological cycling of phosphorus across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary / M.D. Brasier
The macroevolution of phyla / James W. Valentine.