Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record

16.01.2009

Englisch

9781405186469

John Wiley & Sons

Nein

Michael Benton, David A. T. Harper

608

Gebundene Ausgabe

Michael J. Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Bristol. He is interested particularly in early reptiles, Triassic dinosaurs and macroevolution, and has published 50 books and 160 scientific articles. David Harper is a leading expert on fossil brachiopods and numerical methods in palaeontology. He is Professor of Palaeontology in the University of Copenhagen, where he is currently Head of Geology in the Natural History Museum of Denmark. He has published over 10 books and monographs, including a couple of influential textbooks, as well as over 250 scientific articles and, together with Øyvind Hammer, the widely-used software package PAST. His time is divided between collection management, exhibition work, research and some teaching.

Biowissenschaften, Earth Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionsbiologie, Geomorphologie, Geowissenschaften, Life Sciences, Paläontologie, Paläobiologie u. Geobiologie, Paleontology, Paleobiology & Geobiology

RBX - Paläontologie

Preface. 1. Paleontology as a science. 2. Fossils in time and space. 3. Taphonomy and the quality of the fossil record. 4. Paleoecology and paleoclimates. 5. Macroevolution and the tree of life. 6. Fossil form and function. 7. Mass extinctions and biodiversity loss. 8. The origin of life. 9. Protists. 10. Origin of the metazoans. 11. The basal metazoans: sponges and corals. 12. Spiralians 1: lophophorates. 13. Spiralians 2: mollusks. 14. Ecdysozoa: arthropods. 15. Deuterostomes: echinoderms and hemichordates. 16. Fishes and basal tetrapods. 17. Dinosaurs and mammals. 18. Fossil plants. 19. Trace fossils. 20. Diversification of life. References. Further reading. Glossary. Appendix 1: Stratigraphic chart. Appendix 2: Paleogeographic maps. Index

289 mm

21.7 cm