Origin and early evolution of the metazoa
Several years ago, we realized that the most prominent ideas that had been ex pressed about the origin and early evolution of the Metazoa seemed to have been developed chiefly by zoologists using evidence from modern species without reference to the fossil record.
Print Book, English, 2013
Springer-Verlag New York, [Place of publication not identified], 2013
9781489924292, 1489924299
922652115
I • Introduction.- 1 • Origin and Early Radiation of the Metazoa.- II • The Late Proterozoic.- 2 • Faunas and Facies—Fact and Artifact: Paleoenvironmental Controls on the Distribution of Early Cambrian Faunas.- 3 • Biological and Biogeochemical Preludes to the Ediacaran Radiation.- III • Vendian Faunas of the World.- 4 • Vendian Faunas and the Early Evolution of Metazoa.- 5 • Functional and Ecological Aspects of Ediacaran Assemblages.- 6 • The Record of Trace Fossils across the Proterozoic—Cambrian Boundary.- IV • Radiations of the Cambrian Faunas.- 7 • The Lower Cambrian Fossil Record of the Soviet Union.- 8 • Lower Cambrian of Southeastern Newfoundland: Epeirogeny and Lazarus Faunas, Lithofacies—Biofacies Linkages, and the Myth of a Global Chronostratigraphy.- 9 • The Lower Cambrian Fossil Record of China.- 10 • The Early Cambrian Radiation of Arthropods.- 11 • Radiation of Echinodermata.- 12 • The Cambrian Radiation of Brachiopods.- 13 • Diversification of Archaeocyatha.- V • Overview of the Proterozoic/Cambrian Radiations.- 14 • Early Radiation of Biomineralizing Phyla.- 15 • Paleoceanography and Changes in the Biological Cycling of Phosphorus across the Precambrian—Cambrian Boundary.- 16 • The Macroevolution of Phyla.