Brachiopods

by Brunton; Howard

• ISBN13: 9780748409211
• ISBN10: 0748409211
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-29
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

The growth history of a brachiopod is entombed in its shell, but research on fossil and living brachiopods has generated unanswered questions about these marine invertebrates. Several contributors to Brachiopods Past and Present comment on their differing structures and morphological detail. They use these as examples of ontogenetic and evolutionary change, as indicators of taxonomic relationships, or to discuss micro-structural shell morphology. Population studies of various species and recent progress in molecular phylogeny are presented. This single compilation is a must for postgraduate students and researchers in evolution, zoology, geology, palaeontology and related fields.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Editors' Foreword	xiii
Introduction	1	(4)
Alwyn Williams
PART I Living brachiopods and palaeobiology	5	(114)
Introduction	5	(2)
C. Howard
C. Brunton
Apatite varities in Recent and fossil linguloid brachiopod shells	7	(10)
Ivar Puura
Juri Nemliher
Chemico-structural differentation of the organocalcitic shells of rhynchonellate brachiopods	17	(11)
Maggie Cusack
Alwyn Williams
A TEM investigation of modulated microstructure in Recent and fossil articulate brachiopod shells from New Zealand	28	(12)
Nancy Buening
The acrosome reaction of the spermatozoa of the inarticulate brachiopod Lingula anatina	40	(6)
Makoto Fukumoto
Brachiopod larval setae - a key to the phylum's ancestral life cycle?	46	(10)
Carsten Luter
Variation in the loops of two Recent species of Liothyrella (Brachiopoda; Terebratuloidea) from New Zealand and South Orkney Islands	56	(15)
Daphne E. Lee
Sandra J. Carlson
Nancy Buening
Catherine R. Samson
Shell morphology and geographical distribution of Neocrania (Brachiopoda, Recent) in the eastern North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea	71	(9)
Alan Logan
Sarah L. Long
Developmental and settlement characteristics of the Antarctic brachiopod Liothyrella uva (Broderip 1833)	80	(11)
Lloyd S. Peck
Karen Meidlinger
Paul A. Tyler
Embryonic shells of Devonian linguloid brachiopods	91	(11)
Andrzej Balinski
Global surface-water circulation and the main features of brachiopod biogeography	102	(6)
O.N. Zezina
Fundamental differences in external spine growth in brachiopods	108	(11)
Fernando Alvarez
C. Howard C. Brunton
PART II Advances in molecular studies	119	(42)
Introduction	119	(2)
Bernard L. Cohen
Brachiopod molecular phylogeny advances	121	(8)
Bernard L. Cohen
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of long-looped brachiopods	129	(9)
Michiko Saito
Kazuyoshi Endo
Bernard L. Cohen
Phylogenetic relationships of brachiopods within the Metazoa based on mitochondrial amino acid sequence analyses	138	(4)
Alexandra Stechmann
The phylogenetic position of brachiopods inferred from mitochondrial gene orders	142	(8)
Kazuyoshi Endo
Genetic differentiation of Terebratella sanguinea in the New Zealand fiords: a dispersal barrier in the marine environment?	150	(11)
D.G. Ostrow
S.R. Wing
P.V. Mladenov
M.S. Roy
PART III Evolution and phylogeny	161	(98)
Introduction	161	(2)
Sandra J. Carlson
Functional morphology of articulatory structures and implications for patterns of musculature in Cambrian rhynchonelliform brachiopods	163	(14)
Michael G. Bassett
Leonid E. Popov
Lars E. Holmer
Early Silurian stricklandiid brachiopod evolution in eastern North America	177	(12)
Jisuo Jin
Post-Palaeozoic Rhynchonellida (Brachiopoda): classification and evolutionary background	189	(12)
Miguel O. Mancenido
Ellis F. Owen
Radiations and extinctions of atrypide brachiopods: Ordovician-Devonian	201	(11)
Paul Copper
Trends in athyridide diversity dynamics	212	(12)
Fernando Alvarez
T.L. Modzalevskaya
The systematic position of some Upper Permian terebratulide genera	224	(5)
T.N. Smirnova
T.A. Grunt
Ancestry and heterochronic origin of brachiopods of the Superfamily Megathyridoidea (Order Terebratulida): a case of natural selection for equatorial dwarfism?	229	(11)
David I. Mackinnon
Thecideide phylogeny, heterochrony, and the gradual acquisition of characters	240	(8)
Glenn S. Jaecks
Incorporating stratigraphic data in the phylogenetic analysis of the Rhynchonelliformea	248	(11)
Sandra J. Carlson
Lindsey R. Leighton
PART IV Palaeoecology and ecology	259	(38)
Introduction	259	(2)
C. Howard
C. Brunton
Brachiopods of the Isca submarine cave: observations during ten years	261	(7)
Emma Taddei Ruggiero
Brachiopod/crinoid associations in the late Cenozoic of the Antillean region	268	(7)
Stephen K. Donovan
David A.T. Harper
Pragian-Emsian brachiopod communities of the Faou Formation (Massif Armoricain, France)	275	(10)
Remy Gourvennec
Palaeoecological interpretation of the brachiopod faunas of the Bardahessiagh Formation (middle Caradoc), Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland	285	(12)
Yves Candela
PART V Palaeobiogeography and biostratigraphy	297	(137)
Introduction	297	(2)
L. Robin
M. Cocks
Palaeolatitudinal distribution patterns of higher rhynchonelliform brachiopods in the early Ordovician	299	(16)
Juan L. Benedetto
Distribution and diversity of Ordovician articulated brachiopods in the East Baltic	315	(12)
David A.T. Harper
Linda Hints
The orthide Platystrophia in the Ordovician and Early Silurian of the East Baltic	327	(8)
Michael A. Zuykov
Silurian-Devonian biogeography	335	(10)
A.J. Boucot
Robert B. Blodgett
Extinction of some lingulate brachiopod families: new stratigraphical data from the Silurian and Devonian of Central Bohemia	345	(7)
Michal Mergl
Lower and Middle Permian brachiopods from Oman and Peri-Gondwanan palaeogeographical reconstructions	352	(11)
Lucia Angiolini
Permian Productida of Australasia: palaeobiogeographical and palaeoclimatological implications	363	(10)
N. Archbold
A Permian Boreal brachiopod fauna from Okutadami, central Japan, and its tectonic implications	373	(11)
J. Tazawa
Brachiopod biostratigraphy of the Middle Triassic in Bulgaria and comparison with elsewhere in Europe	384	(10)
Samuil Benatov
Mesozoic articulated brachiopods from the Western Cordillera of North America: their significance for palaeogeographic and tectonic reconstruction, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology	394	(17)
Michael R. Sandy
Diversification of Mediterranean Early Jurassic brachiopods after the end-Triassic mass extinction - new results from Hungary	411	(13)
Alfred Dulai
Stratigraphic distribution of brachiopods - a new method of storing and querying loosely-structured biodiversity information	424	(10)
Gordon B. Curry
Richard Connor
Fabio Simeoni
Index	434	(4)
Systematics Association Publications	438