Extinction events in earth history: proceedings of the Project 216, Global Biological Events in Earth History

How to define “global bio-events”....Pages 1-3
Phanerozoic extinctions: How similar are they to each other?....Pages 5-30
Biological selectivity of extinction....Pages 31-43
A multi-causal model of mass extinctions: Increase in trace metals in the oceans....Pages 45-55
Important considerations in the investigation of global bioevents....Pages 57-57
Shock pressures in igneous processes: Implications for K/T events....Pages 59-83
Vertical advection from oxic or anoxic water from the main pycnocline as a cause of rapid extinction or rapid radiations....Pages 85-98
An astronomical explanation of anomalous concentrations of iridium element during catastrophic extinctions....Pages 99-103
Evolutionary crisis within the Ordovician acrotretid inarticulate brachiopods of Poland....Pages 105-114
Late Ordovician graptolite mass mortality and subsequent early silurian re-radiation....Pages 115-123
Silurian and pre-Upper Devonian bio-events....Pages 125-132
The Kacak- otomari event and its characterization in the Palentine domain (Cantabrian Zone, NW Spain)....Pages 133-143
The Middle Givetian pumilio -Events a tool for high time resolution and event-stratigraphical correlation....Pages 145-149
The late Frasnian (Upper Devonian) Kellwasser Crisis....Pages 151-159
The Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction record in the eastern United States....Pages 161-168
Frasnian/famennian event in the Holy Cross Mts, Central Poland: Stratigraphic and ecologic aspects....Pages 169-181
Late Devonian — Early Carboniferous paleobiogeography of benthic Foraminifera and climatic oscillations....Pages 183-187
Major evolutionary events among the spiriferids at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary....Pages 189-198
The Permian-Triassic boundary revisited....Pages 199-238
Mass extinctions in the fossil record of late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic tetrapods....Pages 239-251
The relationship between extrinsic and intrinsic events in the evolution of Mesozoic non-marine Ostracoda....Pages 253-263
The taxonomic analysis of mass extinction intervals: An approach to problems of resolution as shown by Cretaceous ammonite genera (global) and species (Western Interior of the United States)....Pages 265-276
Patterns of survival and recovery following the Cenomanian-Turonian (Late Cretaceous) mass extinction in the Western Interior Basin, United States....Pages 277-298
Trophic differences, originations and extinctions during the Cenomanian and Maastrichtian stages of the Cretaceous....Pages 299-303
Originations, radiations and extinctions of Cretaceous rudistid bivalve species in the Caribbean Province....Pages 305-324
Periodic bioevents in the evolution of the planktonic foraminifera....Pages 325-331
Biogeochemical modeling at mass extinction boundaries: Atmospheric carbon dioxide and ocean alkalinity at the K/T boundary....Pages 333-345
The fern-spore abundance anomaly at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: A regional bioevent in western North America....Pages 347-349
Palynological evidence of effects of the terminal Cretaceous event on terrestrial floras in western North America....Pages 351-364
The Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary interval at south table mountain, near Golden, Colorado....Pages 365-392
The Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary crisis at Zumaya (Northern Spain). Micropaleon-tological data....Pages 393-399
Aftermath of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction: Rate and nature of the early paleocene molluscan rebound....Pages 401-409
Species duration and extinction patterns in Cenozoic non-marine Ostracoda, Western United States....Pages 411-423
Mammal extinctions in the Vallesian (Upper Miocene)....Pages 425-432