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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: trace-fossil record of major evolutionary events
    part number: Volume 1
    part name: Precambrian and Paleozoic
  title info:
    title: Precambrian and Paleozoic
  name:
    name part: Mángano, M. Gabriela
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Buatois, Luis A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: Dedication; Foreword; Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1: The Conceptual and Methodological Tools of Ichnology; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Basic Concepts; 1.3 The Peculiarities of Trace Fossils; 1.4 A Plurality of Research Strategies: The Ichnofacies Model and the Ichnofabric Approach; 1.5 Assessing Changes in Types of Animal-Substrate Interactions Through Time; 1.5.1 Ichnodiversity and Ichnodisparity; 1.5.2 Analysis of Modes of Life and Characterization of Ecospace Occupation; 1.5.3 Analysis of Ecosystem Engineering; 1.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 2: Ediacaran Ecosystems and the Dawn of Animals.
  table of contents: 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Early Ichnologic Evidence of Animal Life: Hunting Ghostly Ancestors; 2.3 Shrinking the Number of Ediacaran Ichnotaxa; 2.4 Ediacaran Ichnodiversity and Ichnodisparity: A Case for Limited Morphologic Variability; 2.5 Ediacaran Ecosystems: The Role of Microbial Matgrounds; 2.6 Comparing Shallow- and Deep-Marine Ediacaran Communities; 2.7 Discussion; 2.8 Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: The Cambrian Explosion; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Cambrian Revolutions; 3.3 Assessment of Ichnodiversity and Ichnodisparity.
  table of contents: 3.4 Sediment Mixing, Ecosystem Engineering, and the Timing of the Cambrian Revolutions; 3.5 Environmental Breadth of the Cambrian Explosion; 3.6 Cambrian Provincialism in Trace Fossils; 3.7 A Picture from Burgess Shale-Type Deposits; 3.8 The Fortunian as a Critical Time in Macroevolution; 3.9 Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Patterns of Environmental Colonization; 4.2.1 Shallow-Marine Siliciclastic Environments; 4.2.1.1 Conservative Nature of Infaunal Communities in High-Energy Nearshore Settings.
  table of contents: 4.2.1.2 Behavioral Innovations and Faunal Turnovers in High-Energy Nearshore Settings; 4.2.1.3 Faunal Turnovers in the Cruziana Ichnofacies; 4.2.2 Shallow-Marine Carbonate Environments; 4.2.2.1 Peculiarities of Carbonate Ichnology; 4.2.2.2 The Thalassinoides Conondrum; 4.2.2.3 The Ordovician Bioerosion Revolution; 4.2.3 Deep-Marine Environments; 4.3 Trends in Ichnodiversity and Ichnodisparity; 4.4 Trends in Tiering Structure and Diachronism in Infaunalization; 4.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: The Prelude to Continental Invasion; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Environmental Framework.
  table of contents: 5.3 Ediacaran; 5.3.1 Ediacaran Trace-Fossil Assemblages; 5.3.1.1 Coastal Settings; Coastal-Subaqueous; Coastal-Transitional; 5.3.2 Ediacaran Ecospace Occupation and Ecosystem Engineering; 5.4 Cambrian; 5.4.1 Early Cambrian Trace-Fossil Assemblages; 5.4.1.1 Coastal Settings; Coastal-Subaqueous; Coastal-Transitional; 5.4.2 Middle to Late Cambrian Trace-Fossil Assemblages; 5.4.2.1 Coastal Settings; Coastal-Subaqueous; Coastal-Transitional; Coastal-Subaerial; 5.4.3 Cambrian Ecospace Occupation and Ecosystem Engineering; 5.5 Ordovician; 5.5.1 Early Ordovician Trace-Fossil Assemblages.
  note: M. Gabriela Mángano, Luis A. Buatois, editors.
  note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
  subject:
    topic: Trace fossils
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary paleobiology
  subject:
    topic: Traces fossiles
  subject:
    topic: Paléobiologie évolutive
  subject:
    topic: NATURE
    topic: Animals
    topic: Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
  subject:
    topic: NATURE
    topic: Fossils
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary paleobiology
  subject:
    topic: Trace fossils
  classification: QE720.5 .T65 2016
  classification: 560/.43
  classification: 333.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Topics in geobiology ; v. 39
  identifier: 9789401796002
  identifier: 9401796009
  identifier: 9401795991
  identifier: 9789401795999
  identifier: com.springer.onix.9789401796002 Springer Nature
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 161122
    record change date: 20250816191209.8
    record identifier: in00004726518
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng