Comparing the geological and fossil records
Subtitle: implications for biodiversity studies
By: edited by A.J. McGowan and A.B. Smith
Series: Geological Society special publication -- no. 358; Geological Society special publication -- no. 358.
Publisher: Geological Society
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781862393363
Subjects: Biodiversity; Paleontology; Paleobiogeography; Geology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ties linking rock and fossil records and why they are important for palaeobiodiversity studies / A.B. Smith & A.J. Mcgowan; title: Skeletal mineralogy and biodiversity of marine invertebrates : size matters more than seawater chemistry / L Cherns & V.P. Wright; title: Detecting common-cause relationships with directional information transfer / B. Hannisdal; title: Variation in stratigraphic congruence (GER) through the Phanerozoic and across higher taxa is partially determined by sources of bias / A. O'Connor, C. Moncrieff & M.A. Wills; title: Impact of outcrop area on estimates of Phanerozoic terrestrial biodiversity trends / P.D. Wall, L.C. Ivany & B.H. Wilkinson; title: Assessing the quality of the fossil record : insights from vertebrates / M.J. Benton, A.M. Duhnill, G.T. Lloyd & F. G. Marx; title: Macrostratigraphy and macroevolution in marine environments : testing the common-cause hypothesis / S.E. Peters & N.A. Heim; title: The fossil record and spatial structuring of environments and biodiversity in the Cenozoic of New Zealand / J.S. Crampton, M. Foote, R.A. Cooper, A.G Beu & S.E. Peters; title: Disentangling palaeodiversity signals from a biased sedimentary record : an example from the Early to Middle Miocene of Central Paratethys Sea / M. Zuschin, M. Harzhauser & O. Mandic; title: The deep-sea microfossil record of macroevolutionary change in plankton and its study / D.B. Lazarus; title: Quantifying the deep-sea rock and fossil record bias using coccolithophores / G.T. Lloyd, A.B. Smith & J.R. Young; title: Collateral mammal diversity loss associated with late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions and implications for the future /  A.D. Barnosky, M.A. Carrasco & R.W. Graham; title: Uncovering the diversification history of marine tetrapods : ecology influences the effect of geological sampling biases / R.B.J. Benson, & R.J. Butler; title: Geological and anthropogenic controls on the sampling of the terrestrial fossil record : a case study from the Dinosauria / P. Upchurch, P.D. Mannion,  R.B.J. Benson, & R.J. Butler &  M.T. Carrano.