The ecology of the Cambrian radiation
By: edited by Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev and Robert Riding
Contributors: Zhuravlev, A. I︠U︡.; Riding, Robert
Series: Critical moments in paleobiology and earth history; Critical moments in paleobiology and earth history series
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 525
Subjects: Paleoecology -- Cambrian; Paleontology -- Cambrian; Geology, Stratigraphic -- Cambrian
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev.; title: Paleomagnetically and tectonically based global maps for vendian to mild-ordovician time / Alan G. Smith.; title: Global facies distributions from late vendian to mid-ordovician / Kirill B. Seslavinsky, Irina D. Maidanskaya.; title: Did supercontinental amalgamation trigger the "Cambrian Explosion"? / Martin D. Brasier, John F. Lindsay.; title: Climate change at the neoproterozoic-cambrian transition / Toni T. Eerola.; title: Australian early and middle cambrian sequence biostratigraphy with implications for species diversity and correlation / David I. Gravestock, John H. Shergold.; title: The cambrian radiation and the diversification of sedimentary fabrics / Mary L. Droser, Xing Li.; title: Biotic diversity and structure during the neoproterozoic-ordovician transition / Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev.; title: Ecology and evolution of cambrian plankton / Nicholas J. Butterfield.; title: Evolution of shallow-water level-bottom communities / Mikhail B. Burzin, Francoise Debrenne, Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev.; title: Evolution of the Hardground Community / Sergei V. Rozhnov.; title: Ecology and evolution of Cambrian reefs / Brian R. Pratt, Ben R. Spincer, Rachel A. Wood.; title: Evolution of the deep-water Benthic community / T. Peter Crimes.; title: Sponges, cnidarians, and ctenophores / Francoise Debrenne, Joachim Reitner.; title: Mollusks, hyoliths, stenothecoids, and coeloscleritophorans / Artem V. Kouchinsky.; title: Brachiopods / Galina T. Ushatinskaya.; title: Ecologic evolution of Cambrian trilobites / Nigel C. Hughes.; title: Ecology of nontrilobite arthropods and lobopods in the cambrian / Graham E. Budd.; title: Ecologic radiation of Cambro-Ordovician echinoderms / Thomas E. Guensburg, James Sprinkle.; title: Calcified algae and bacteria / Robert Riding.; title: Molecular fossils demonstrate precambrian origin of dinoflagellates / J. Michael Moldowan, Stephen R. Jacobson, Jeremy Dahl