Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms

TRAMA

Paleontologists and geologists struggle with research questions often complicated by the loss or even absence of key paleobiological and paleoenvironmental information. Insight into this missing data can be gained through direct exploration of analogous living organisms and modern environments. Creative, experimental and interdisciplinary treatments of such ancient-Earth analogs form the basis of Lessons from the Living. This volume unites a diverse range of expert paleontologists, neontologists and geologists presenting case studies that cover a spectrum of topics, including functional morphology, taphonomy, environments and organism-substrate interactions.

SOMMARIO

Part I Functional Morphology 1. Crinoids Aweigh: Experimental Biomechanics of Ancyrocrinus Holdfasts          Roy E. Plotnick and Jennifer Bauer 2. Ultra-elongate freshwater pearly mussels (Unionida): Roles for function and constraint in multiple morphologic convergences with marine taxaLaurie C. Anderson 3. Relationships of Internal Shell Features to Chemosymbiosis, Life Position, and Geometric Constraints within the Lucinidae (Bivalvia) Laurie C. Anderson 4. Modern Analogs for the Study of Eurypterid PaleobiologyDanita S. Brandt and Victoria McCoy 5. New Applications for Constrained Ordination: Reconstructing Feeding Behaviors in Fossil Remingtonocetinae (Cetacea: Mammalia) Lisa Noelle Cooper, Tobin L. Hieronymus, Christopher J. Vinyard, Sunil Bajpai, and J.G.M. Thewissen Part II Taphonomy and Environment 6. Patterns in Microbialites Throughout Geologic Time: Is the Present Really the Key to the Past?Kristen L. Myshrall, Christophe Dupraz, Pieter T. Visscher 7 The Relationship Between Modern Mollusk Assemblages and their Expression in Subsurface Sediment in a Carbonate Lagoon, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin IslandsKarla Parsons-Hubbard, Dennis Hubbard, Caitlin Tems, and Ashley Burkett 8. Biotic Segregation In An Upper Mesotidal Dissipative Ridge And Runnel Succession, West Salish Sea, Vancouver Island, British ColumbiaJohn-Paul Zonneveld, Murray K. Gingras, Cheryl A. Hodgson, Luke P. McHugh,  Reed A. Myers, Jesse A. Schoengut, and Bryce Wetthuhn 9. Using X-ray Radiography to Observe Fe distributions in Bioturbated SedimentMurray K. Gingras, John-Paul Zonneveld, and Kurt O. Konhauser 10. Phytoliths as Tracers of Recent Environmental ChangeEthan G. HylandPart III Organism-Substrate Interaction 11. Large Complex Burrows of Terrestrial Invertebrates: Neoichnology of Pandinus imperator (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae)Daniel I. Hembree 12. Biomechanical Analysis of Fish Swimming Trace Fossils (Undichna): Preservation and Mode of LocomotionMaría Cristina Cardonattoand Ricardo Néstor Melchor 13. The Neoichnology of Two Terrestrial Ambystomatid Salamanders: Quantifying Amphibian Burrows Using Modern AnaloguesNicole D. Dzenowski and Daniel I. Hembree 14. Biogenic Structures of Burrowing Skinks: Neoichnology of Mabuya multifaciata (Squamata: Scincidae)Angeline Catena and Daniel I. Hembree15. Novel Neoichnology of Elephants: Nonlocomotive Interactions with Sediment, Locomotion Traces in Partially Snow-Covered Sediment, and Implications for Proboscidean PaleoichnologyBrian F. Platt and Stephen T. Hasiotis 16. Burrows and Related Traces in Snow and Vegetation Produced by the Norwegian Lemming (Lemmuslemmus)Dirk Knaust 17. Near-Surface Imaging (GPR) of Biogenic Structures in Siliciclastic, Carbonate, and Gypsum DunesIlya V. Buynevich, H. Allen Curran, Logan A. Wiest, Andrew P.K. Bentley, Sergey V. Kadurin, Christopher T. Seminack, Michael Savarese, David Bustos, Bosiljka  Glumac, and Igor A.Losev

AUTORE

Daniel I. Hembree, Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University; PhD University of Kansas 2005.Brian F. Platt, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, University of Mississippi; PhD University of Kansas 2012.Jon J. Smith, Assistant Scientist, Stratigraphic Research Group, Kansas Geological Survey; PhD University of Kansas 2007.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9789401787208
• Collana: Topics in Geobiology
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm Ø 7804 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: XVII, 420 p. 130 illus., 45 illus. in color.
• Pagine Arabe: 420
• Pagine Romane: xvii