Comparing the Geological and Fossil Records: Implications for Biodiversity Studies (Geological Society Special Publication 358)

Comparing the Geological and Fossil Records:
Implications for Biodiversity Studies......Page 1
ISBN 978-1-86239-336-3......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
The ties linking rock and fossil records and why they are important for palaeobiodiversity studies......Page 7
Skeletal mineralogy and biodiversity of marine invertebrates: size
matters more than seawater chemistry......Page 15
Detecting common-cause relationships with directional
information transfer......Page 25
Variation in stratigraphic congruence (GER) through
the Phanerozoic and across higher taxa is partially determined
by sources of bias......Page 37
Impact of outcrop area on estimates of Phanerozoic
terrestrial biodiversity trends......Page 59
Assessing the quality of the fossil record: insights from vertebrates......Page 69
Macrostratigraphy and macroevolution in marine environments:
testing the common-cause hypothesis......Page 101
The fossil record and spatial structuring of environments
and biodiversity in the Cenozoic of New Zealand......Page 111
Disentangling palaeodiversity signals from a biased sedimentary
record: an example from the Early to Middle Miocene of Central
Paratethys Sea......Page 129
The deep-sea microfossil record of macroevolutionary change
in plankton and its study......Page 147
Quantifying the deep-sea rock and fossil record bias
using coccolithophores......Page 173
Collateral mammal diversity loss associated with late Quaternary
megafaunal extinctions and implications for the future......Page 185
Uncovering the diversification history of marine tetrapods:
ecology influences the effect of geological sampling biases......Page 197
Geological and anthropogenic controls on the sampling of the
terrestrial fossil record: a case study from the Dinosauria......Page 215
Index......Page 247
Backtext......Page 254