Echinoderm paleobiology
By: edited by William I. Ausich and Gary D. Webster.
Contributors: Ausich, William I. 1952-; Webster, G. D. 1934-
Series: Life of the past
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780253351289
Subjects: Echinodermata, Fossil.; Paleobiology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Taphonomy as an indicator of behavior among fossil crinoids / Tomasz K. Baumiller ... [et al.]; value: Attachment, facies distribution, and life history strategies in crinoids from the Upper Ordovician of Kentucky / Carlton E. Brett, Bradley L. Deline and Patrick I. McLaughlin; value: Paleobiology of Carboniferous microcrinoids / George D. Sevastopulo; value: The importance of echinoids in late Paleozoic ecosystems / Chris L. Schneider; value: New observations on taphonomy and paleoecology of Uintacrinus socialis Grinnell (Crinoidea; Upper Cretaceous) / Andrew J. Webber, David L. Meyer and Clare V. Milsom; value: Taphonomy of the irregular echinoid Clypeaster humilis from the Red Sea : implications for taxonomic resolution along taphonomic grades / James H. Nebelsick; value: Tiering history of early epifaunal suspension-feeding echinoderms / Stephen Q. Dornbos; value: Evolution and extinction of a Paleozoic crinoid clade : phylogenetics, paleogeography, and environmental distribution of the periechocrinids / William I. Ausich and Thomas W. Kammer; value: Paedomorphosis as an adaptive response in pinnulate cladid crinoids from the Burlington Limestone (Mississippian, Osagean) of the Mississippi Valley / Thomas W. Kammer; value: Cladid crinoid radial facets, brachials, and arm appendages : a terminology solution for studies of lineage, classification, and paleoenvironment / Gary D. Webster and Christopher G. Maples; value: The origin of Lovén's law in glyptocystitoid rhombiferans and its bearing on the plate homology and heterochronic evolution of the hemicosmitoid peristomial border / Colin D. Sumrall; value: Mixed-age echinoderms, conodonts, and other fossils used to date a meteorite impact, and implications for missing strata in the type Osagean (Mississippian) in Missouri, USA / James F. Miller ... [et al.]; value: Crinoid biomarkers (Borden Group, Mississippian) : implications for phylogeny / Christina E. O'Malley, William I. Ausich and Yu-Ping Chin; value: Overview of early Ordovician crinoid diversity from the western and southwestern United States / James Sprinkle, Thomas E. Guensburg and Forest J. Gahn; value: Ever since Ramsbottom : Silurian crinoids of the British Isles since 1954 / Stephen K. Donovan ... [et al.]; value: Overview of Paleozoic stemmed echinoderms from China / Johnny A. Waters ... [et al.]; value: Fossil Echinodermata from Puerto Rico / Jorge Vélez-Juarbe and Hernán Santos.