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9789400706798

Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9789400706798

  • ISBN10:

    9400706790

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-03-03
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag
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Summary

This volume provides a detailed description of a wide range of numerical, statistical or modeling techniques and novel instrumentation separated into individual chapters written by paleontologists with expertise in the given methodology. Each chapter outlines the strengths and limitations of specific numerical or technological approaches, and ultimately applies the chosen method to a real fossil dataset or sample type. A unifying theme throughout the book is the evaluation of fossils during the prologue and epilogue of one of the most exciting events in Earth History: the Cambrian radiation.

Table of Contents

Numerical Methods
Ordination Methods and the Evaluation of Ediacaran Communitiesp. 3
Exploratory Multivariate Techniques and Their Utility for Understanding Ancient Ecosystemsp. 23
Morphometries in the Study of Ediacaran Fossil Formsp. 49
Analyzing Predation from the Dawn of the Phanerozoicp. 73
Ecospace Utilization during the Ediacaran Radiation and the Cambrian Eco-explosionp. 111
Quantifying Bioturbation in Ediacaran and Cambrian Rocksp. 135
Assessing the Role of Skeletons in Early Paleozoic Carbonate Production: Insights from Cambro-Ordovician Strata, Western Newfoundlandp. 161
Exploring the Ecological Dynamics of Extinctionp. 185
Technological Approaches
Fossils with Little Relief: Using Lasers to Conserve, Image, and Analyze the Ediacara Biotap. 223
Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy and Raman (and Fluorescence) Spectroscopic Imagery of Permineralized Cambrian and Neoproterozoic Fossilsp. 241
X-ray Microanalysis of Burgess Shale and Similarly Preserved Fossilsp. 271
Ultrastructural Approaches to the Microfossil Record: Assessing Biological Affinities by Use of Transmission Electron Microscopyp. 301
Paleobiological Applications of Focused Ion Beam Electron Microscopy (FIB-EM): An Ultrastructural Approach to the (Micro)Fossil Recordp. 321
Reconstructing Deep-Time Biology with Molecular Fossilsp. 355
Carbon and Sulfur Stable Isotopic Systems and Their Application in Paleoenvironmental Analysisp. 403
Indexp. 451
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