The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

Author : Barry D. Webby,Florentin Paris,Mary L. Droser,Ian G. Percival
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231501637

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The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event by Barry D. Webby,Florentin Paris,Mary L. Droser,Ian G. Percival Pdf

Two of the greatest evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth occurred during Early Paleozoic time. The first was the Cambrian explosion of skeletonized marine animals about 540 million years ago. The second was the "Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event," which is the focus of this book. During the 46-million-year Ordovician Period (489–443 m.y.), a bewildering array of adaptive radiations of "Paleozoic- and Modern-type" biotas appeared in marine habitats, the first animals (arthropods) walked on land, and the first non-vascular bryophyte-like plants (based on their cryptospore record) colonized terrestrial areas with damp environments. This book represents a compilation by a large team of Ordovician specialists from around the world, who have enthusiastically cooperated to produce this first globally orientated, internationally sponsored IGCP (International Geological Correlation Program) project on Ordovician biotas. The major part is an assembly of genus- and species-level diversity data for the many Ordovician fossil groups. The book also presents an evaluation of how each group diversified through Ordovician time, with assessments of patterns of change and rates of origination and extinction. As such, it will become the standard work and data source for biotic studies on the Ordovician Period.

Author : B. D. Webby
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231126786

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The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event by B. D. Webby Pdf

Two of the greatest evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth occurred during Early Paleozoic time. The first was the Cambrian explosion of skeletonized marine animals about 540 million years ago. The second was the "Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event," which is the focus of this book. This is the first book devoted specifically to establishing the global patterns of differentiation of Ordovician biotas through time and space. It provides extensive genus- and species-level diversity data for the many Ordovician fossil groups and presents an evaluation of how each group diversified, with assessments of patterns of change, and rates of origination and extinction.

Author : A.W. Hunter,J.J. Álvaro,B. Lefebvre,P. Van Roy,S. Zamora
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786204073

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The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Insights from the Tafilalt Biota, Morocco by A.W. Hunter,J.J. Álvaro,B. Lefebvre,P. Van Roy,S. Zamora Pdf

Special Publication 485 About 40 million years after the Cambrian Explosion, the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) represents a second and dramatic burst in marine biodiversity, with major changes in the structure of ecosystems and the progressive replacement of the distinctive Cambrian Evolutionary Fauna by the Paleozoic Evolutionary Fauna. However, the GOBE is not a single, worldwide, short-term event, but rather the complex sum of successive diversifications occurring in distinct taxonomic groups, trophic guilds and regions. This book focuses on the Late Ordovician Tafilalt Biota, Anti-Atlas Morocco, which provides a snapshot of the GOBE in high-latitude regions of the Southern Hemisphere. A series of contributions explore different aspects of the Tafilalt Biota, including its geological setting, the international fossil trade in this area and a series of detailed systematic contributions describing many new taxa of marine invertebrates. This volume represents a significant contribution to the understanding of the Tafilalt Biota and its significance to the GOBE.

Author : Trond H. Torsvik,L. Robin M. Cocks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107105324

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Earth History and Palaeogeography by Trond H. Torsvik,L. Robin M. Cocks Pdf

This book provides a complete Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography, using new and detailed full-colour maps, to link surface and deep-Earth processes.

Author : Zerina Johanson,Charlie Underwood,Martha Richter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107179448

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Evolution and Development of Fishes by Zerina Johanson,Charlie Underwood,Martha Richter Pdf

World-class palaeontologists and biologists summarise the state-of-the-art on fish evolution and development.

Author : M. Gabriela Mángano,Luis A. Buatois
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 940241407X

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The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events by M. Gabriela Mángano,Luis A. Buatois Pdf

This volume addresses major evolutionary changes that took place during the Ediacaran and the Paleozoic. These include discussions on the nature of Ediacaran ecosystems, as well as the ichnologic signature of evolutionary radiations, such as the Cambrian explosion and the Great Ordovician biodiversification event, the invasion of the land, and the end-Permian mass extinction. This volume set provides innovative reviews of the major evolutionary events in the history of life from an ichnologic perspective. Because the long temporal range of trace fossils has been commonly emphasized, biogenic structures have been traditionally overlooked in macroevolution. However, comparisons of ichnofaunas through geologic time do reveal the changing ecology of organism-substrate interactions. The use of trace fossils in evolutionary paleoecology represents a new trend that is opening a window for our understanding of major evolutionary radiations and mass extinctions. Trace fossils provide crucial evidence for the recognition of spatial and temporal patterns and processes associated with paleoecologic breakthroughs.

Author : Diego García-Bellido Capdevila
Publisher : IGME
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN : 8478408576

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Ordovician of the World by Diego García-Bellido Capdevila Pdf

Author : Winfried Henke,Ian Tattersall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 2057 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540324744

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Handbook of Paleoanthropology by Winfried Henke,Ian Tattersall Pdf

This 3-volume handbook brings together contributions by the world ́s leading specialists that reflect the broad spectrum of modern palaeoanthropology, thus presenting an indispensable resource for professionals and students alike. Vol. 1 reviews principles, methods, and approaches, recounting recent advances and state-of-the-art knowledge in phylogenetic analysis, palaeoecology and evolutionary theory and philosophy. Vol. 2 examines primate origins, evolution, behaviour, and adaptive variety, emphasizing integration of fossil data with contemporary knowledge of the behaviour and ecology of living primates in natural environments. Vol. 3 deals with fossil and molecular evidence for the evolution of Homo sapiens and its fossil relatives.

Author : D.A.T. Harper,T. Servais
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781862393738

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Early Palaeozoic Biogeography and Palaeogeography by D.A.T. Harper,T. Servais Pdf

The Early Palaeozoic was a critical interval in the evolution of marine life on our planet. Through a window of some 120 million years, the Cambrian Explosion, Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, End Ordovician Extinction and the subsequent Silurian Recovery established a steep trajectory of increasing marine biodiversity that started in the Late Proterozoic and continued into the Devonian. Biogeography is a key property of virtually all organisms; their distributional ranges, mapped out on a mosaic of changing palaeogeography, have played important roles in modulating the diversity and evolution of marine life. This Memoir first introduces the content, some of the concepts involved in describing and interpreting palaeobiogeography, and the changing Early Palaeozoic geography is illustrated through a series of time slices. The subsequent 26 chapters, compiled by some 130 authors from over 20 countries, describe and analyse distributional and in many cases diversity data for all the major biotic groups plotted on current palaeogeographic maps. Nearly a quarter of a century after the publication of the ‘Green Book’ (Geological Society, London, Memoir12, edited by McKerrow and Scotese), improved stratigraphic and taxonomic data together with more accurate, digitized palaeogeographic maps, have confirmed the central role of palaeobiogeography in understanding the evolution of Early Palaeozoic ecosystems and their biotas.

Author : Michael J.S. Tevesz,Peter L. McCall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475707403

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Biotic Interactions in Recent and Fossil Benthic Communities by Michael J.S. Tevesz,Peter L. McCall Pdf

Author : David L. Meyer,Richard Arnold Davis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780253013491

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A Sea without Fish by David L. Meyer,Richard Arnold Davis Pdf

A “superbly written, richly illustrated” guide to the animals who lived 450 million years ago—in the fossil-rich area where Cincinnati, Ohio now stands (Rocks & Minerals). The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during the Ordovician Period, about 450 million years ago—some 250 million years before the dinosaurs lived. In Ordovician time, the shallow sea that covered much of what is now the North American continent teemed with marine life. The Cincinnati area has yielded some of the world’s most abundant and best-preserved fossils of invertebrate animals such as trilobites, bryozoans, brachiopods, molluscs, echinoderms, and graptolites. So famous are the Ordovician fossils and rocks of the Cincinnati region that geologists use the term “Cincinnatian” for strata of the same age all over North America. This book synthesizes more than 150 years of research on this fossil treasure-trove, describing and illustrating the fossils, the life habits of the animals represented, their communities, and living relatives, as well as the nature of the rock strata in which they are found and the environmental conditions of the ancient sea. “A fascinating glimpse of a long-extinct ecosystem.” —Choice

Author : J. Hendry,P. Burgess,D. Hunt,X. Janson,V. Zampetti
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786205391

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Seismic Characterization of Carbonate Platforms and Reservoirs by J. Hendry,P. Burgess,D. Hunt,X. Janson,V. Zampetti Pdf

Modern seismic data have become an essential toolkit for studying carbonate platforms and reservoirs in impressive detail. Whilst driven primarily by oil and gas exploration and development, data sharing and collaboration are delivering fundamental geological knowledge on carbonate systems, revealing platform geomorphologies and how their evolution on millennial time scales, as well as kilometric length scales, was forced by long-term eustatic, oceanographic or tectonic factors. Quantitative interrogation of modern seismic attributes in carbonate reservoirs permits flow units and barriers arising from depositional and diagenetic processes to be imaged and extrapolated between wells. This volume reviews the variety of carbonate platform and reservoir characteristics that can be interpreted from modern seismic data, illustrating the benefits of creative interaction between geophysical and carbonate geological experts at all stages of a seismic campaign. Papers cover carbonate exploration, including the uniquely challenging South Atlantic pre-salt reservoirs, seismic modelling of carbonates, and seismic indicators of fluid flow and diagenesis.

Author : George R. McGhee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0231075057

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The Late Devonian Mass Extinction by George R. McGhee Pdf

Based on two decades of research, The Late Devonian Mass Extinction reviews the many theories that have been presented to explain the global mass extinction that struck the earth over 367 million years ago, considering in particular the possibility that the extinction was triggered by multiple impacts of extraterrestrial objects.

Author : Richard I. Gibson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781614238195

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Lost Butte, Montana by Richard I. Gibson Pdf

From the stately Queen Anne mansions of the West Side to the hastily constructed shanties of Cabbage Patch, Lost Butte, Montana traces the citys history through its architectural heritage. This book includes such highlights as the Grand Opera House, once graced by entertainers and cultural icons like Charlie Chaplin, Sarah Bernhardt and Mark Twain; the infamous brothels protested by reformer Carrie Nation, wielding her hatchet and sharp tongue; and the Columbia Gardens, built by copper king William Clark as a respite from the smoke and toil of the mines and later destroyed by fire. Through the stories of these structures, lost to the march of time and urban renewal, historian Richard Gibson recalls the boom and bust of Butte, once a mining metropolis and now part of the largest National Historic Landmark District.

Author : Gerta Keller,Andrew C. Kerr
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Asteroids
ISBN : 9780813725055

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Volcanism, Impacts, and Mass Extinctions: Causes and Effects by Gerta Keller,Andrew C. Kerr Pdf

"Comprises articles stemming from the March 2013 international conference at London's Natural History Museum. Researchers across geological, geophysical, and biological disciplines present key results from research concerning the causes of mass extinction events"--