The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran BiotaPatricia Vickers-Rich, Patricia Komarower Geological Society of London, 2007 - 456 էջ The Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic was a time punctuated by a series of significant events in Earth history. Glaciations of global scale wracked the planet, interfingered with dramatic changes in oceanic and atmospheric chemistry and marked changes in continental configuration. It was during these dynamic and 'weedy' times that metazoans first appeared, diversified, culminating in the appearance of hard tissue skeletons and deep 'farming' of the marine substrate, in late Proterozoic and first few millions of years of the Phanerozoic. This book is the culmination of two symposia of UNESCO International Geological Correlation Project 493, one in Prato (Italy) in 2004, the second in Kyoto (Japan) in 2006. Both dealt specifically with the precise timing of physical events and teasing out of the effects which these changing environments, climates, global chemistry and palaeogeography had on the development and diversification of animals, culminating in the spectacular Ediacaran/Vendian faunas of the late Precambrian. |
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geological evidence 1320 | 15 |
LINNEMANN U Ediacaran rocks from the Cadomian basement of the SaxoThuringian Zone | 35 |
RAUB T D EVANS D A D SMIRNOV A V Siliciclastic prelude to ElatinaNuccaleena | 53 |
palaeobiological and stable isotopic | 77 |
TOJO B KATSUTA N TAKANO M KAWAKAMI S OHNO T Calcitedolomite cycles in the | 103 |
Correlation and naming | 133 |
Ediacarans | 157 |
future research directions for further | 181 |
weeded from the Garden | 277 |
a review of current understanding | 297 |
MAITHY P K KUMAR G Biota in the terminal Proterozoic successions on the Indian | 315 |
SEREZHNIKOVA E A Vendian Hiemalora from Arctic Siberia reinterpreted as holdfasts of | 331 |
Body plans | 352 |
Neoproterozoic bilaterian body plans | 369 |
SEILACHER A The nature of vendobionts | 387 |
PrecambrianCambrian transition | 405 |
JENKINS R J F NEDIN C The provenance and palaeobiology of a new multivaned | 195 |
JENSEN S PALACIOS T MARTÍ MUS M A brief review of the fossil record of the | 223 |
NARBONNE G M GREENTREE C ANDERSON M M Morphology and | 237 |
Short papers | 423 |
MAHESHWARI A SIAL A N MATHUR S C d¹³C stratigraphy of the Birmania Basin | 439 |
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