The Vendian System
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The Rise And Fall Of The Ediacaran Biota
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Author : Patricia Vickers-Rich
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Release Date : 2007
The Rise And Fall Of The Ediacaran Biota written by Patricia Vickers-Rich and has been published by Geological Society of London this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Science categories.
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.
The Rise Of Animals
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Author : Mikhail A. Fedonkin
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2007
The Rise Of Animals written by Mikhail A. Fedonkin and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Science categories.
An essential resource for paleontologists, biologists, geologists, and teachers, The Rise of Animals is the best single reference on one of earth's most significant events.
On The Origin Of Phyla
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Author : James W. Valentine
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2004-06-18
On The Origin Of Phyla written by James W. Valentine and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-18 with Science categories.
Owing its inspiration and title to On the Origin of Species, James W. Valentine's ambitious book synthesizes and applies the vast treasury of theory and research collected in the century and a half since Darwin's time. By investigating the origins of life's diversity, Valentine unlocks the mystery of the origin of phyla. One of the twentieth century's most distinguished paleobiologists, Valentine here integrates data from molecular genetics, evolutionary developmental biology, embryology, comparative morphology, and paleontology into an analysis of interest to scholars from any of these fields. He begins by examining the sorts of evidence that can be gleaned from fossils, molecules, and morphology, then reviews and compares the basic morphology and development of animal phyla, emphasizing the important design elements found in the bodyplans of both living and extinct phyla. Finally, Valentine undertakes the monumental task of developing models to explain the origin and early diversification of animal phyla, as well as their later evolutionary patterns. Truly a magnum opus, On the Origin of Phyla will take its place as one of the classic scientific texts of the twentieth century, affecting the work of paleontologists, morphologists, and developmental, molecular, and evolutionary biologists for decades to come. "A magisterial compendium . . . . Valentine offers a judicious evaluation of an astonishing array of evidence."—Richard Fortey, New Scientist "Truly a magnum opus, On the Origin of Phyla has already taken its place as one of the classic scientific texts of the twentieth century, affecting the work of paleontologists, morphologists, and developmental, molecular, and evolutionary biologists for decades to come."—Ethology, Ecology & Evolution "Valentine is one of the Renaissance minds of our time. . . . Darwin wisely called his best-known work On the Origin of the Species; the origin of the phyla is an even stickier problem, and Valentine deserves credit for tackling it at such breadth . . . . A magnificient book."—Stefan Bengtson, Nature
Origin And Early Evolution Of The Metazoa
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Author : Jere H. Lipps
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-11-21
Origin And Early Evolution Of The Metazoa written by Jere H. Lipps and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-21 with Science categories.
Several years ago, we realized that the most prominent ideas that had been ex pressed about the origin and early evolution of the Metazoa seemed to have been developed chiefly by zoologists using evidence from modern species without reference to the fossil record. Paleontologists had, in fact, put forth their own ideas but the zoological and the paleontological evidence were about the problem, seldom considered together, especially by zoologists. We believed that the paleon tological documentation of the first Metazoa was too scattered, too obscure to Western readers, and much of it too recent to have been readily available to our colleagues in zoology. Whether or not that was entirely true, we thought that a single volume reviewing the fossil record of the earliest Metazoa would be useful to many in both paleontology and zoology, especially since so much new informa tion has been developed in the last few years. Some of this information has been summarized in general articles recently, but an overview of most of the field does not exist. We therefore organized this book in five parts so that the evidence could be placed in perspective and summarized and inferences made from it. Part I intro duces the previous hypotheses that have been proposed for the origin and early radiation of Metazoa. Part II consists of two summary chapters that set the sedi mentological, geochemical, and biological background to the known radiations of Metazoa.
The Neoproterozoic Timanide Orogen Of Eastern Baltica
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Author : D. G. Gee
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Release Date : 2004
The Neoproterozoic Timanide Orogen Of Eastern Baltica written by D. G. Gee and has been published by Geological Society of London this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Science categories.
Early Life On Earth
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Author : Stefan Bengtson
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1994
Early Life On Earth written by Stefan Bengtson and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Science categories.
This study is organized around three themes: the origin and early diversification of life during the Archean Eon; the maturation of life and the Earth during the long Proterozoic Eon; and the explosive diversification of multicellular life that marks the dawn of the Phanerozoic Eon. The contributors discuss the coherence of history, the combinatorial generation of taxonomic diversity, early Metazoan evolution, and the Cambrian explosion.
The Vendian System
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Author : Boris S. Sokolov
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-12-23
The Vendian System written by Boris S. Sokolov and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-23 with Science categories.
The two-volume monograph "Vendian System: Vol. 1 Paleontology, Vol. 2 Regional Geology" is a synthesis of studies carried out over 30 years and devoted to the crucial problem of stratigraphic geology and the history of organic evolution at the Precambrian-Phanerozoic boundary. The studies showed the necessity in recognizing a new stra tigraphic system -the Vendian (for the first time in the last 100 years). Volume 1 deals with different concepts concerning the nature and importance of the Precambrian-Cambrian period, the history of rec ognition of the Vendian (first as a complex and then as a system) and correlative units of the Upper Precambrian. A detailed promorphol ogical analysis of the Vendian Metazoa is used as a basis for recog nition of some new major taxa of multicellular organisms, and is fol lowed by a comprehensive systematic description of all major groups of organic life in the Vendian which include: unique fauna of multicel lular, non-skeletal organisms (from the world's richest localities along the Zimny and Letny Coasts in the White Sea area, the Dniester Basin of Podolia in the Ukraine, and Olenek Uplift, as well as peculiar loca lities of the Metazoa in the Urals); trace fossils, multicellular mega scopic algae, actinomycetes and organisms of uncertain systematic position, various microfossils (acritarch and filamentous forms); cal careous algae from the uppermost Vendian; stromatolites and micro phytolites. All the described forms are illustrated in the correspond ing plates. References are given in Volumes 1 and 2.
The Evolution Of Late Ediacaran Riverine Estuarine System In The Lublin Podlasie Slope Of The East European Craton Southeastern Poland
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Author : Jolanta Pacześna
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Evolution Of Late Ediacaran Riverine Estuarine System In The Lublin Podlasie Slope Of The East European Craton Southeastern Poland written by Jolanta Pacześna and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Estuarine sediments categories.
Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Geology categories.
Neues Jahrbuch F R Geologie Und Pal Ontologie
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Neues Jahrbuch F R Geologie Und Pal Ontologie written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Geology categories.