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Echinoderm Paleobiology

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ISBN-10: 0253351286

ISBN-13: 9780253351289

Edition: 2008

Authors: William I. Ausich, Gary D. Webster

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Treats various paleobiological approaches to the phylum's remarkable evolutionary history
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Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/18/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 472
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 2.464
Language: English

Introduction
Functional Morphology, Paleoecology, and Taphonomy
Introduction to Part 1
Taphonomy as an Indicator of Behavior among Fossil Crinoids
Attachment, Facies Distribution, and Life History Strategies in Crinoids from the Upper Ordovician of Kentucky
Paleobiology of Carboniferous Microcrinoids
The Importance of Echinoids in Late Paleozoic Ecosystems
New Observations on Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Uintacrinus socialis Grinnell (Crinoidea; Upper Cretaceous)
Taphonomy of the Irregular Echinoid Clypeaster humilis from the Red Sea: Implications for Taxonomic Resolution along Taphonomic Grades
Evolutionary Paleoecology
Introduction to Part 2
Tiering History of Early Epifaunal Suspension-Feeding Echinoderms
Evolution and Extinction of a Paleozoic Crinoid Clade: Phylogenetics, Paleogeography, and Environmental Distribution of the Periechocrinids
Morphology for Refined Phylogenetic Studies
Introduction to Part 3
Paedomorphosis as an Adaptive Response in Pinnulate Cladid Crinoids from the Burlington Limestone (Mississippian, Osagean) of the Mississippi Valley
Cladid Crinoid Radial Facets, Brachials, and Arm Appendages: A Terminology Solution for Studies of Lineage, Classification, and Paleoenvironment
The Origin of Loven's Law in Glyptocystitoid Rhombiferans and Its Bearing on the Plate Homology and Heterochronic Evolution of the Hemicosmitoid Peristomial Border
Mississippian Impacts and Biomarkers
Introduction to Part 4
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
Crinoid Biomarkers (Borden Group, Mississippian): Implications for Phylogeny
Echinoderm Faunal Studies
Introduction to Part 5
Overview of Early Ordovician Crinoid Diversity from the Western and Southwestern United States
Ever since Ramsbottom: Silurian Crinoids of the British Isles since 1954
Overview of Paleozoic Stemmed Echinoderms from China
Fossil Echinodermata from Puerto Rico
Appendices
Index