Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Phanerozoic Marine Biodiversity: A Fresh Look at Data, Methods, Patterns and Processes....Pages 3-22
Coordinated Stasis Reconsidered: A Perspective at Fifteen Years....Pages 23-36
Whilst This Planet Has Gone Cycling On: What Role for Periodic Astronomical Phenomena in Large-Scale Patterns in the History of Life?....Pages 37-50
Climate Change Through Time....Pages 51-62
Development of Intertidal Biotas Through Phanerozoic Time....Pages 63-128
Marine Sclerobiofacies: Encrusting and Endolithic Communities on Shells Through Time and Space....Pages 129-157
Brachiopods and Their Auloporid Epibionts in the Devonian of Boulonnais (France): Comparison with Other Associations Globally....Pages 159-188
Fossil Fish Taphonomy and the Contribution of Microfossils in Documenting Devonian Vertebrate History....Pages 189-223
Messel Pit Fossil Site – The Legacy of the Environment and Life of the Eocene....Pages 225-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Evolutionary Scenario of the Early History of the Animal Kingdom: Evidence from Precambrian (Ediacaran) Weng’an and Early Cambrian Maotianshan Biotas, China....Pages 239-379
The Ordovician Radiation: Macroevolutionary Crossroads of the Phanerozoic....Pages 381-394
Phylogeny of Palaeozoic Gastropods Inferred from Their Ontogeny....Pages 395-435
Palaeozoic Innovations in the Micro- and Megafossil Plant Record: From the Earliest Plant Spores to the Earliest Seeds....Pages 437-477
Tentaculitoids – An Enigmatic Group of Palaeozoic Fossils....Pages 479-490
Palaeozoic Ammonoids – Diversity and Development of Conch Morphology....Pages 491-534
Quantitative Approach to Diversity and Decline in Late Palaeozoic Trilobites....Pages 535-555
Devonian Cladid Crinoid Evolution, Diversity, and First and Last Occurrences: Summary Observations....Pages 557-584
Palaeoecology, Aerodynamics, and the Origin of Avian Flight....Pages 585-612
Front Matter....Pages 613-613
An Analysis of the Ireviken Event in the Boree Creek Formation, New South Wales, Australia....Pages 615-630
Isotope Geochemistry and Plankton Response to the Ireviken (Earliest Wenlock) and Cyrtograptus lundgreni Extinction Events, Cape Phillips Formation, Arctic Canada....Pages 631-652
Front Matter....Pages 613-613
Late Ludfordian Correlations and the Lau Event....Pages 653-675
The Late Middle Devonian (Givetian) Global Taghanic Biocrisis in Its Type Area (Northern Appalachian Basin): Geologically Rapid Faunal Transitions Driven by Global and Local Environmental Changes....Pages 677-703
The Permian—A Time of Major Evolutions and Revolutions in the History of Life....Pages 705-718
Millennial Physical Events and the End-Permian Mass Mortality in the Western Palaeotethys: Timing and Primary Causes....Pages 719-758
The Cretaceous–Tertiary Mass Extinction, Chicxulub Impact, and Deccan Volcanism....Pages 759-793
Survival, but…! New Tales of ‘Dead Clade Walking’ from Austral and Boreal Post-K–T Assemblages....Pages 795-810
Fungi, a Driving Force in Normalization of the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Following the End-Cretaceous Extinction....Pages 811-817
Front Matter....Pages 819-819
Changes in the Pattern of Brachiopod Biogeography in Northern Asia Through Early and Middle Devonian Times....Pages 821-829
The Paleobiogeography of Pennsylvanian Crinoids and Blastoids....Pages 831-847
Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Ostracods from Western Australia: What They Reveal About Evolution of the Indian Ocean....Pages 849-882
Cretaceous Continental Bridges, Insularity, and Vicariance in the Southern Hemisphere: Which Route Did Dinosaurs Take?....Pages 883-911
Palaeobiogeography of Mesozoic Mammals – Revisited....Pages 913-934
Front Matter....Pages 935-935
Cenozoic Environmental Shifts and Foraminiferal Evolution....Pages 937-965
Miocene Asteroid Impacts: Proposed Effects on the Biogeography and Extinction Patterns of Eastern North American Gastropods....Pages 967-981
The Rise of Australian Marsupials: A Synopsis of Biostratigraphic, Phylogenetic, Palaeoecologic and Palaeobiogeographic Understanding....Pages 983-1078
Back Matter....Pages 1079-1100