The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

Released on by Barry D. Webby
preview-18

  • The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event Book Detail

  • Author : Barry D. Webby
  • Release Date : 2004-04-14
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Genre : Science
  • Pages : 497
  • ISBN 13 : 0231501633
  • File Size : 51,51 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event by Barry D. Webby PDF Summary

Book Description: Two of the greatest evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth occurred during Early Paleozoic time. The first was the Cambrian explosion of skeletonized marine animals about 540 million years ago. The second was the "Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event," which is the focus of this book. During the 46-million-year Ordovician Period (489–443 m.y.), a bewildering array of adaptive radiations of "Paleozoic- and Modern-type" biotas appeared in marine habitats, the first animals (arthropods) walked on land, and the first non-vascular bryophyte-like plants (based on their cryptospore record) colonized terrestrial areas with damp environments. This book represents a compilation by a large team of Ordovician specialists from around the world, who have enthusiastically cooperated to produce this first globally orientated, internationally sponsored IGCP (International Geological Correlation Program) project on Ordovician biotas. The major part is an assembly of genus- and species-level diversity data for the many Ordovician fossil groups. The book also presents an evaluation of how each group diversified through Ordovician time, with assessments of patterns of change and rates of origination and extinction. As such, it will become the standard work and data source for biotic studies on the Ordovician Period.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation

The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation

File Size : 68,68 MB
Total View : 5055 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Cambrian radiation was the explosive evolution of marine life that started 550,000,000 years ago. It ranks as one of the most important episodes in Earth hi

The Chronologers' Quest

The Chronologers' Quest

File Size : 56,56 MB
Total View : 9838 Views
DOWNLOAD

The debate over the age of the Earth has been ongoing for over two thousand years, and has pitted physicists and astronomers against biologists, and religious p

When the Invasion of Land Failed

When the Invasion of Land Failed

File Size : 66,66 MB
Total View : 5373 Views
DOWNLOAD

The invasion of land by ocean-dwelling plants and animals was one of the most revolutionary events in the evolution of life on Earth, yet the animal invasion al

Triassic Life on Land

Triassic Life on Land

File Size : 2,2 MB
Total View : 2563 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Triassic period is generally viewed as the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs. For paleontologists, however, it also marks the rise of the world's first mode