Geological Society Special Publication, 002 The Fossil Record

Cover
......Page 1
Front......Page 2
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 11
The symposium meeting......Page 22
Part I
Symposium papers......Page 24
Life in Pre-Cambrian and early Cambrian times......Page 26
The significance of certain trace-fossil ranges......Page 45
Fluctuations in the evolution of
Palaeozoic invertebrates......Page 48
The origins of some Silurian
enteletacean brachiopods......Page 62
Permo-Triassic extinction......Page 64
Changes in terrestrial vertebrate faunas
during the Mesozoic......Page 84
Some Cretaceous-Tertiary marine faunal changes......Page 97
Major features of the evolution of echinoids......Page 111
Plant-insect relationships in
Palaeozoic and later time......Page 113
Biochemical evolution and the fossil record......Page 124
Fossil birds and their adaptive radiation......Page 138
GENERAL DISCUSSION......Page 160
Introduction to Part II......Page 162
PLANTAE......Page 164
Thallophyta 1......Page 165
Thallophyta 2......Page 183
Bryophyta and Charophyta......Page 212
Pteridophyta 1......Page 219
Pteridophyta 2......Page 232
Gymnospermophyta......Page 245
Angiospermae......Page 267
INVERTEBRATA......Page 287
Porifera and Archaeocyatha......Page 288
Coelenterata......Page 301
Bryozoa......Page 333
Brachiopoda......Page 350
Mollusca: Amphineura, Monoplacophora
and Gastropoda......Page 375
Mollusca: Cephalopoda (Nautiloidea)......Page 383
Mollusca: Cephalopoda (Ammonoidea)......Page 396
Mollusca: Cephalopoda (Coleoidea)......Page 412
Mollusca: Scaphopoda and Bivalvia......Page 419
Arthropoda: Protarthropoda and Trilobitomorpha......Page 428
Arthropoda: Chelicerata, Pycnogonida,
Palaeoisopus, Myriapoda and Insecta......Page 447
Arthropoda: Crustacea......Page 483
Echinodermata: Pelmatozoa......Page 512
Echinodermata: Eleutherozoa......Page 529
Chordata: Hemichordata (including Graptolithina),
Pogonophora, Urochordata and Cephalochordata......Page 546
Miscellanea......Page 557
VERTEBRATA......Page 571
Agnatha......Page 572
Pisces......Page 580
Amphibia......Page 627
Reptilia......Page 637
Aves......Page 674
Mammalia......Page 704
Numerical analysis of The Fossil Record......Page 729
Index......Page 759