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Title informationThe Great Ordovician Biodiversification EventSeries: CRITICAL MOMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES IN EARTH HISTORY AND PALEOBIOLOGY SERIES Barry D Webby, Florentin Paris and Mary L Droser
408 pages, 140 illus.Columbia University Press
During the 46 million year Ordovician Period (489-443 m.y.a), a remarkable array of adaptive radiations of "Paleozoic - and Modern-type" biotas appeared in marine habitats, the first animals (arthropods) walked on land, and the first nonvascular bryophyte-like plants colonized the land. This is the first book devoted specifically to establishing the global patterns of differentiation of Ordovician biotas through time and space. It provides extensive genus- and species-level diversity data for the many Ordovician fossil groups and presents an evaluation of how each group diversified, with assessments of patterns of diversity change, and rates of origination and extinction. Opticron Hand lens, 23mm, 10x magnification Bestselling general-purpose hand lens. Equipment | £11.99 | approx. $19/€15 Other products in Hand Lenses related organisations include: Palaeontological Association Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology Transvaal Museum If you are involved in a scientific, conservation or environmental organisation and would like to be listed, please see our NHBS-Xchange information page. |
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