The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (eBook)

Barry D. Webby is a senior paleontologist at the Center for Ecostratigraphy & Paleobiology at Macquarie University, Sydney. Florentin Paris is a CNRS research director in geosciences at the University of Rennes, France. Mary L. Droser is a professor in the Department of Earth Science, University of California, Riverside. Ian G. Percival is chief paleontologist at the Geological Survey of New South Wales, Australia.

Scaling Of Ordovician Time, And Measures For Assessing Biodiversity ChangeIntroduction, by Barry D. Webby and Florentin ParisConspectus Of The Ordovician WorldStratigraphic Framework and Time Slices, by Barry D. Webby, Roger A. Cooper, Stig M. Bergstrm and Florentin ParisTaxonomic GroupsCalibration of the Ordovician Time Scale, by Peter M. Sadler and Roger A. CooperAspects Of The Ordovician RadiationMeasures of Biodiversity, by Roger A. CooperMajor Terranes in the Ordovician, by L. Robin M. Cocks and Trond H. TorsvikIsotopic Signatures, by Graham A. Shields and J·n VeizerOrdovician Oceans and Climate, by Christopher R. BarnesWas there an Ordovician Superplume Event?, by Christopher R. BarnesEnd-Ordovician Glaciation, by Patrick J. BrenchleySea-level Changes - a Baltoscandian Perspective, by Arne Thorsh¯j NielsonRadiolarians, by Paula J. Noble and Taniel DanelianSponges, by Marcelo Carrera and J. Keith RigbyStromatoporoids, by Barry D. WebbyConulariids, by Heyo Van Iten and Zdenka Brabcov·Corals, by Barry D. Webby, Robert J. Elias, Graham A. Young, Bjrn E.E. Neuman and Dimitri Bryozoans, by Paul D Taylor and Andrej ErnstBrachiopods, by David A.T. Harper, L. Robin M. Cocks, Leonid E. Popov, Peter M. Sheehan, MichaelPolyplacophoran and Symmetrical Univalve Molluscs, by Lesley Cherns, David M. Rohr and JirÌ FrydaGastropods, by JirÌ Fryda and David M. RohrRostroconch and Bivalve Molluscs, by John C.W. CopeNautiloid Cephalopods, by Robert C. Frey, Matilde S. Beresi, David H. Evans, Alan H. King and Ian G. PerciTube-Shaped Incertae Sedis, by John M. Malinky, Mark A. Wilson, Lars E. Holmer and Hubert LardeuxWorms, Worm-like and Sclerite-bearing Taxa, by Olle Hints, Mats Eriksson, Anette E.S. Hgstrm, Petr Kraft and Oliver LehnertTrilobites, by Jonathan M. Adrain, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Richard A. Fortey, ÿyvind Hammer, JohnEurypterids, Phyllocarids and Ostracodes, by Simon J. Braddy, Victor P. Tollerton Jr., Patrick Racheboeuff, and Roger SchallrAsterozoan, Echinozoan, Blastozoan, Crinozoan and Homalozoan Echinoderms, by James Sprinkle and Thomas E. GuensburgGraptolites: Patterns of Diversity across Paleolatitudes, by Roger A. Cooper, Jrg Maletz, Lindsey Taylor and Jan ZalasiewiczChitinozoans, by Florentin Paris, AÔcha Achab, Esther Asselin, Xiao-hong Chen, Jaak NÐlvak, YngveConodonts: Lower-Middle Ordovician Record, by Guillermo L. Albanesi and Stig M. BergstrmVertebrates (Agnathans and Gnathostomes), by Susan Turner, Alain Blieck and Godfrey S. NowlanReceptaculitids and Algae, by Matthew H. Nitecki, Barry D. Webby, Nils Spjeldnaes and Yong-yi ZhenAcritarchs, by Thomas Servais, Jun Li, Ludovic Stricanne, Marco Vecoli and Reed WicanderMiospores and the Emergence of Land Plants, by Phillippe Steemans and Charles WellmanThe Ichnologic Record of the Ordovician Radiation, by M. Gabriela M·ngano and Mary L. DroserThe Ordovician Radiation: Towards a New Global Synthesis, by Arnold I. Miller