Echinoderm Paleobiology

Herausgeber: Ausich, William I; Webster, Gary D

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Echinoderms (which include such animals as sea stars, crinoids or sea lilies, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers) have left useful fossil record. This volume highlights the modern study of fossil echinoderms.

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Produktdetails

• Life of the Past
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 188mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1344g
• ISBN-13: 9780253351289
• ISBN-10: 0253351286
• Artikelnr.: 23367207

Autorenporträt

William I. Ausich is Professor of Earth Sciences and Director of the Orton Geological Museum at The Ohio State University. He is an expert in the study of Paleozoic crinoids with an emphasis on paleobiology and evolutionary paleoecology. Gary D. Webster is Adjunct Faculty of Geology at Washington State University.

Inhaltsangabe

IContents
Introduction / William I. Ausich and Gary D. Webster
Part 1. Functional Morphology, Paleoecology, and Taphonomy
Introduction to Part 1 / William I. Ausich and Gary D. Webster
1. Taphonomy as an Indicator of Behavior among Fossil Crinoids / Tomasz K.
Baumiller, Forest J. Gahn, Hans Hess, and Charles G. Messing
2. 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
3. Paleobiology of Carboniferous Microcrinoids / George D. Sevastopulo
4. The Importance of Echinoids in Late Paleozoic Ecosystems / Chris L.
Schneider
5. New Observations on Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Uintacrinus socialis
Grinnell (Crinoidea; Upper Cretaceous) / Andrew J. Webber, David L. Meyer,
and Clare V. Milsom
6. Taphonomy of the Irregular Echinoid Clypeaster humilis from the Red Sea:
Implications for Taxonomic Resolution along Taphonomic Grades / James H.
Nebelsick
Part 2. Evolutionary Paleoecology
Introduction to Part 2 / William I. Ausich and Gary D. Webster
7. Tiering History of Early Epifaunal Suspension-Feeding Echinoderms /
Stephen Q. Dornbos
8. Evolution and Extinction of a Paleozoic Crinoid Clade: Phylogenetics,
Paleogeography, and Environmental Distribution of the Periechocrinids /
William I. Ausich and Thomas W. Kammer
Part 3. Morphology for Refined Phylogenetic Studies
Introduction to Part 3 / William I. Ausich and Gary D. Webster
9. Paedomorphosis as an Adaptive Response in Pinnulate Cladid Crinoids from
the Burlington Limestone (Mississippian, Osagean) of the Mississippi Valley
/ Thomas W. Kammer
10. 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
11. 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
Part 4. Mississippian Impacts and Biomakers
Introduction to Part 4 / William I. Ausich and Gary D. Webster
12. 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, Kevin R. Evans, William
I. Ausich, Susan E. Bolyard, George H. Davis, Raymond L. Ethington, Charles
W. Rovey II, Charles A. Sandberg, Thomas L. Thompson, and Johnny A. Waters
13. Crinoid Biomarkers (Borden Group, Mississippian): Implications for
Phylogeny / Christina E. O'Malley, William I. Ausich, and Yu-Ping Chin
Part 5. Echinoderm Faunal Studies
Introduction to Part 5 / William I. Ausich and Gary D. Webster
14. Overview of Early Ordovician Crinoid Diversity from the Western and
Southwestern United States / James Sprinkle, Thomas E. Guensburg, and
Forest J. Gahn
15. Ever since Ramsbottom: Silurian Crinoids of the British Isles since
1954 / Stephen K. Donovan, David N. Lewis, Rosanne E. Widdison, and Fiona
E. Fearnhead
16. Overview of Paleozoic Stemmed Echinoderms from China / Johnny A.
Waters, Sara A. Marcus, Christopher G. Maples, N. Gary Lane, Hongfei Hou,
Zhouting Liao, Jinxing Wang, and Lujun Liu
17. Fossil Echinodermata from Puerto Rico / Jorge Vélez-Juarbe and Hernán
Santos
Appendices
Index