Earth and Life

Earth and Life
Author: John A. Talent
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1104
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9048134285

This volume focuses on the broad pattern of increasing biodiversity through time, and recurrent events of minor and major ecosphere reorganization. Intense scrutiny is devoted to the pattern of physical (including isotopic), sedimentary and biotic circumstances through the time intervals during which life crises occurred. These events affected terrestrial, lacustrine and estuarine ecosystems, locally and globally, but have affected continental shelf ecosystems and even deep ocean ecosystems. The pattern of these events is the backdrop against which modelling the pattern of future environmental change needs to be evaluated.

Fossil Record 5

Fossil Record 5
Author: Robert M. Sullivan
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Fossils
ISBN:

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Insights from the Tafilalt Biota, Morocco

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Insights from the Tafilalt Biota, Morocco
Author: A.W. Hunter
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2022
Genre: Science
ISBN: 178620407X

Special Publication 485 About 40 million years after the Cambrian Explosion, the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) represents a second and dramatic burst in marine biodiversity, with major changes in the structure of ecosystems and the progressive replacement of the distinctive Cambrian Evolutionary Fauna by the Paleozoic Evolutionary Fauna. However, the GOBE is not a single, worldwide, short-term event, but rather the complex sum of successive diversifications occurring in distinct taxonomic groups, trophic guilds and regions. This book focuses on the Late Ordovician Tafilalt Biota, Anti-Atlas Morocco, which provides a snapshot of the GOBE in high-latitude regions of the Southern Hemisphere. A series of contributions explore different aspects of the Tafilalt Biota, including its geological setting, the international fossil trade in this area and a series of detailed systematic contributions describing many new taxa of marine invertebrates. This volume represents a significant contribution to the understanding of the Tafilalt Biota and its significance to the GOBE.