Brachiopods

Paul Copper

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781351463096
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Zoology
• Index: Biological Sciences

This collection of conference papers presents information on the molecular genetics, biomineralization, growth and ecology of extant brachiopod stocks (extrapolated back to the Cambrian), and the shell microstructure, taphonomy, paleogeography, evolution, and taxonomy of fossil brachiopods.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: Amended excerpts from the opening address
• The genus Pseudogibbirhynchia (Brachiopoda, Rhynchonellacea) from the Toarcian of Portugal
• Permian brachiopods from Karakorum (Pakistan)
• Paleobiogeography of Australian Permian brachiopod faunas
• Bashkirian and Moscovian brachiopod assemblages from Northwestern Serbia
• The ‘Afro-South American Realm’ and Silurian ‘Clarkeia Fauna’
• Silurian brachiopod biostratigraphy, NE Timan-N Urals, Russia
• Paleobiogeographic – paleoenvironmental significance of the Eocene brachiopod fauna, Seymour Island, Antarctica
• The classification of the brachiopod order Strophomenida
• Revision and review of the order Pentamerida
• Genetic models of Early Devonian brachiopod pavements, Longmenshan, Sichuan, China
• Competence, pre- and post-settlement choices of articulate brachiopod larvae
• Lower Paleozoic brachiopod communities
• Brachiopod molecular phylogeny
• Evolution of the spire-bearing brachiopods (Ordovician-Jurassic)
• On the classification of the order Athyridida
• Remarks on the classification of punctate spiriferids
• Taphonomy of some Cretaceous and Recent brachiopods
• Brachiopod paleoecology and paleobiogeographical affinities in the Early Cretaceous of Southeastern Romania
• Permian brachiopod paleobiogeography of South America
• The sequence of Permian brachiopod assemblages in South China
• Early Paleozoic radiation and classification of organo-phosphatic brachiopods
• Ordovician (Llanvirn-Ashgill) rhynchonellid brachiopod biogeography
• Kaninospiriferinae, a new subfamily of the Spiriferidae (Brachiopoda)
• Late Eifelian-Early Givetian (Middle Devonian) brachiopod paleobiogeography of Eastern and Central North America
• Taphonomic megabias in the fossil record of lingulide brachiopods
• Intracrystalline proteins from Terebratulina retusa (Linnaeus) and their role in biomineralisation
• The problem of comparability in taxonomic ranks for brachiopod systematics
• Functional and taphonomic implications of Ordovician strophomenid brachiopod valve morphology
• Early brachiopod associates: Epibionts on Middle Ordovician brachiopods
• Functional morphology – Paleoecology of pygopid brachiopods from the Western Carpathian Mesozoic
• Principal trends in Early athyrid evolution
• Late Cretaceous rhynchonellid assemblages of North Bulgaria
• Relationship between siliciclastics/carbonates and Silurian brachiopod community distribution in Lithuania
• Ordovician brachiopod biogeography in the lapetus suture zone of Ireland: Provincial dynamics in a changing ocean
• Organic contents and elemental composition of brachiopod shell and mantle tissues
• Radiation of the earliest calcareous brachiopods
• Facies control of Jurassic brachiopods: Examples from Central Asia
• Hydrodynamic stability of empty shells of extant terebratulids and rhynchonellids: Implications for life habit of extinct biconvex taxa
• Notes on living brachiopod ecology in a submarine cave off the Campania coast, Italy
• Evolution of Devonian plicathyridine brachiopods, Northern Eurasia
• Peregrinella (Brachiopoda; Rhynchonellida) from the Early Cretaceous, Wrangellia Terrane, Alaska
• Early Devonian brachiopods from the Zeravshan Mountain Range, Southern Tyan-Shan, Central Asia
• Classification of Paleozoic rhynchonellid brachiopods
• Shell ultrastructure of Mesozoic craniid brachiopods from the Ukraine
• Notes on the taxonomy of Mesozoic Rhynchonellida
• Zonation and paleoecological distribution of Bulgarian Jurassic brachiopods
• Brachiopod paleozoogeography through the Cambrian
• No second chances? New perspectives on biotic interactions in post-Paleozoic brachiopod history
• Degraded intracrystalline proteins and amino acids from fossil brachiopods and considerations for amino acid taxonomy
• Taxonomic importance of body-mantle relationships in the Brachiopoda
• Reef-dwelling brachiopods from the Late Permian of the central Yangtze River area, China
• Permian brachiopods from the Tsunemori Formation, SW Japan, and their paleobiogeographic implication
• Frasnian atrypoid brachiopods from South Timan
• Frasnian – Famennian brachiopod faunal extinction dynamics: An example from southern Poland
• A to Z world list of brachiopod genera-subgenera to 1995
• Abstracts presented at the Third International Brachiopod Congress, September 2-5, 1995
• Author index