The great Ordovician biodiversification event / edited by Barry D. Webby [and others].

Other author Webby, B. D.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2004.
Descriptionx, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCritical moments and perspectives in earth history and paleobiology
Critical moments in paleobiology and earth history series. ^A319101
Contents Stratigraphic framework and time slices / Barry D. Webby ... [et al.] -- Calibration of the Ordovician timescale / Peter M. Sadler and Roger A. Cooper -- Measures of diversity / Roger A. Cooper -- Major terranes in the Ordovician / L. Robin M. Cocks and Trond H. Torsvik -- Isotopic signatures / Graham A. Shields and Ján Veizer -- Ordovician oceans and climate / Christopher R. Barnes -- Was there an Ordovician superplume event? / Christopher R. Barnes -- End Ordovician glaciation / Patrick J. Brenchley -- Ordovician sea level changes : a Baltoscandian perspective / Arne Thorshøj Nielsen -- Radiolarians / Paula J. Noble and Taniel Danelian -- Sponges / Marcelo G. Carrera and J. Keith Rigby -- Stromatoporoids / Barry D. Webby -- Conulariids / Heyo Van Iten and Zdenka Vyhlasová -- Corals / Barry D. Webby ... [et al.] -- Bryozoans / Paul D. Taylor and Andrej Ernst -- Brachiopods / David A.T. Harper ... [et al.] -- Polyplacophoran and symmetrical univalve mollusks / Lesley Cherns, David M. Rohr and Jiří Frýda -- Gastropods / Jiří Frýda and David M. Rohr -- Bivalve and rostroconch mollusks / John C.W. Cope -- Nautiloid cephalopods / Robert C. Frey ... [et al.] -- Tube-shaped incertae sedis / John M. Malinky ... [et al.] -- Worms, wormlike and sclerite-bearing taxa / Olle Hints ... [et al.] -- Trilobites / Jonathan M. Adrain ... [et al.] -- Eurypterids, phyllocarids, and ostracodes / Simon J. Braddy ... [et al.] -- Crinozoan, blastozoan, echinozoan, asterozoan, and homalozoan echinoderms / James Sprinkle and Thomas E. Guensburg -- Graptolites : patterns of diversity across paleolatitudes / Roger A. Cooper ... [et al.] -- Chitinozoans / Florentin Paris ... [et al.] --
Contents Conodonts : Lower to Middle Ordovician record / Guillermo L. Albanesi and Stig M. Bergström -- Vertebrates (agnathans and gnathostomes) / Susan Turner, Alain Blieck and Godfrey S. Nowlan -- Receptaculitids and algae / Matthew H. Nitecki ... [et al.] -- Acritarchs / Thomas Servais ... [et al.] -- Miospores and the emergence of land plants / Philippe Steemans and Charles H. Wellman -- The ichnologic record of the Ordovician radiation / M. Gabriela Mángano and Mary L. Droser -- The Ordovician radiation : toward a new global synthesis / Arnold I. Miller.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 395-466) and index.
LCCN 2003055799
ISBN0231126786 (acid-free paper)

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