Extinction and survival in the fossil record
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Extinction and survival in the fossil record
(The Systematics Association special volume series, no. 34)
Published for the Systematics Association by Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1988
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"Proceedings of a symposium held in Durham, UK, September 1986" -- Prelim.
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Mass extinctions of animals and plants in the geological past are a topic of continuing interest and debate. This volume reviews some of the major changes that are seen in important groups of organisms in the fossil record. Our present understanding of the nature and causes of these changes is examined, together with the problems of defining such changes. The available data on a variety of fossil plants and animals are considered in relation to major extinction events that have been recognized in the geological record for Phanerozoic time (i.e. approximately the past 600 million years). The question of whether there is a regular periodicity in extinction events is considered, as are the problems posed by the incompleteness of the palaeontological and stratigraphical evidence. This book will interest research workers and advanced students in systematic and evolutionary biology, paleontology, geology, biogeography, botany and zoology.
Table of Contents
- M.C. Boulter, R.A. Spicer, & B.A. Thomas: Patterns of plant extinction from some palaeobotanical evidence
- M.D. Brasier: Foraminiferid extinction and ecological collapse during global biological events
- C.T. Scrutton: Patterns of extinction and survival in palaeozoic corals
- Derek V. Ager: Extinctions and survivals in the Brachiopoda and the dangers of data bases
- P.D. Taylor & G.P. Larwood: Mass extinctions and the pattern of bryozoan evolution
- A. Hallam & A.I. Miller: Extinction and survival in the Bivalvia
- Michael House: Extinction and survival in the Cephalopoda
- C.R.C. Paul: Extinction and survival in the echinoderms
- D.E.G. Briggs, R.A. Fortey, & E.N.K. Clarkson: Extinction and the fossil record of the arthropods
- R.B. Rickards: Anachronistic, heraldic, and echoic evolution: new patterns revealed by extinct planktonic hemichordates
- R.J. Aldridge: Extinction and survival in the Conodonta
- L.B. Halstead: Extinction and survival of the jawless vertebrates the Agnatha
- M.J. Benton: Mass extinctions in the fossil record of reptiles: paraphyly, patchiness, and periodicity
- D.M. Unwin: Extinction and survival in birds
- R.J.G. Savage: Extinction and the fossil mammal record.
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