Graptolite Paleobiology

Table des matières

List of Contributors vii
 
Preface viii
 
Acknowledgments x
 
1 Graptolites: An Introduction 1
Jan Zalasiewicz and Jörg Maletz
 
2 Biological Affinities 15
Jörg Maletz
 
3 Construction of Graptolite Tubaria 31
Jörg Maletz, Alfred C. Lenz and Denis E. B. Bates
 
4 Paleoecology of the Pterobranchia 50
Jörg Maletz and Denis E. B. Bates
 
5 Graptolites as Rock Components 76
Jörg Maletz
 
6 Graptolites and Stratigraphy 94
Jörg Maletz
 
7 Taxonomy and Evolution 111
Jörg Maletz
 
8 Bound to the Sea Floor: The Benthic Graptolites 124
Jörg Maletz
 
9 The Planktic Revolution 139
Jörg Maletz
 
10 Early Ordovician Diversity Burst 153
Jörg Maletz and Yuandong Zhang
 
11 The Biserial Graptolites 181
Jörg Maletz
 
12 The Retiolitid Graptolites 207
Jörg Maletz, Denis E. B. Bates, Anna Koz³owska and Alfred C. Lenz
 
13 The Monograptids 221
Jörg Maletz
 
14 Collection, Preparation and Illustration of Graptolites 244
Denis E. B. Bates and Jörg Maletz
 
15 History of Graptolite Research 254
Jörg Maletz
 
References 270
 
Index 311

A propos de l'auteur

Jörg Maletz is a researcher based at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Résumé

The graptolites constitute one of the geologically most useful taxonomic groups of fossils for dating rock successions, understanding paleobiogeography and reconstructing plate tectonic configurations in the Lower Palaeozoic.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jan Zalasiewicz, Jorg (Freie Universitat Berlin) Maletz, J Maletz, Maletz, Joerg (Freie Universitat Berlin) Maletz, Joerg Maletz, J?rg Maletz, Jorg Maletz, Jörg Maletz, Jorg Zalasiewicz Maletz
• Edition: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 05.05.2017
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Préhistoire, protohistoire; Sciences naturelles, médecine, it, technique > Sciences de la Terre > Paléontologie
• EAN: 9781118515723
• ISBN: 978-1-118-51572-3
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Thème: TOPA Topics in Paleobiology; TOPA Topics in Paleobiology
• Catégories: Evolutionsbiologie, Paläontologie, Geowissenschaften, Life Sciences, Biowissenschaften, Evolutionary Biology, Earth Sciences, Paleontology, Paleobiology & Geobiology, Paläontologie, Paläobiologie u. Geobiologie, Graptolithen, Marine Ecosystem, Biologists, ecologists, Oceanographers, palaeobiology, palaeontological research, earth scientists, Jorg Maletz, Graptolite Treatise, graptolite taxonomy, graptolite evolution, Graptolithina, pterobranch Rhabdopleura, benthic graptolite, geological research, Palaeozoic ecology, dating Lower Palaeozoic rock successions, Jan Zalasiewicz, SEM Investigation