Evolution of the Ammonoids

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Tale of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Authors
1 Ammon's Horns and Serpent Stones
	Jurassic Park of the Oceans
	Ammonites in World Culture
	So What is an Ammonite?
	What is a Fossil?
	Ammonites and Geologic Time
	Ammonites and Paleoecology
	Further Reading
2 Anatomy, Growth, and Geometry
	Ammonoid Anatomy 101
		Jaws
		Radula
	Soft Tissues
		Eyes
		Arms
		Mantle
	Jet Propulsion
	The Living Chamber
	Further Reading
3 Spirals and Squiggles: The Math of Ammonites
	Phi
	Fractals
	Fractal Geometric Methods
	Further Reading
4 The First Cephalopod: A Snail Who Dared to Fly
	Colonial Organisms
	Syncytial Cells
	Symbiosis: The Powerhouse of the Cell
	The Cambrian "Explosion"
	Mollusks Arise
	Cephalopods Emerge
		Will the Real First Cephalopod Please Stand Up?
	The Terror of Ordovician Seas
	Further Reading
5 Colonizing the Wild Blue Beyond: The First Ammonoids in the Age of Fish
	"Fossil Capitalism"
	Cephalopods in the Age of Fish
		Order Agoniatitida: The First Ammonoid
		Order Goniatitida
	Paradise Lost: The Devonian Extinctions
		Famennian Stage: The Latest Devonian
		Order Clymeniida
		Hanging with the Hangenberg: The End-Devonian Event
	Future Reading
6 Survivors: Prolecanitids, Ceratitids, and the Origin of Ammonites
	Order Prolecanitida
	Order Ceratitida
	The "Mother of All Mass Extinctions"
	A Blank Slate
	A Fresh New Look
	Phylloceratoidea and the First True Ammonite
	Another Mass Extinction
	Further Reading
7 Jurassic Seapark
	Ammonite Pavements
	The Diversification of Jurassic Ammonites
		Phylloceratoidea
	She Sells Seashells by the Seashore
	Important Jurassic Ammonite Families and Superfamilies
		Dactylioceratidae
		Porpoceras
	Holzmaden
		Hildoceratidae
	Volga River
	Kosmoceratidae
	Lytoceratoidea
	The End of the Jurassic Seapark
	Further Reading
8 The Cretaceous Period: The Golden Autumn of Ammonites
	Chalk
	Cretaceous Reefs and Ammonites
	A Strange New World
	The Desmoceratids
	Minor Extinctions (Oceanic Anoxic Events) in the Cretaceous: The Albian-Cenomanian Boundary
	Cenomanian-Turonian Extinction
	Turonian-Coniacian Extinction
	The Late Cretaceous
		Placenticeras
		Baculitidae
			Sciponoceras
			Baculites
		Scaphitidae
			Hoploscaphites
	Further Reading
9 Ancyloceratina: The Heteromorphs
	Paleoecology
		The Pierre Shale
		Yezo Supergroup, Island of Hokkaido, Japan
	Heteromorph Families
		Common Heteromorphs
		Diplomoceratidae
			Scalarites
			Diplomoceras
			Polyptychoceras
			Ptychoceras
			Oxybeloceras
		Nostoceratidae
			Didymoceras
			Pravitoceras
			Bostrychoceras
			Eubostrychoceras
			Muramotoceras
			Nipponites
			Hyphantoceras
	Turrilitidae
	Further Reading
10 Extinction of the Ammonoids: What Humans Can Learn
	Night Comes to the Cretaceous
	Volcanoes and Sea Level Changes
	Life and Death in the Oceans
	The End of the Ammonites
		Ocean Acidification
		An Unrepeatable Event
		Coleoid Takeover
	The Next Mass Extinction?
	Further Reading
Glossary
Index