Neoproterozoic Geobiology and Paleobiology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Xiao, Shuhai (Editor), Kaufman, Alan J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Topics in Geobiology ; 27
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Paleontology.; Geobiology.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.

The Neoproterozoic Era (1000–542 million years ago) is a geological period of dramatic climatic change and important evolutionary innovations. Repeated glaciations of unusual magnitude occurred throughout this tumultuous interval, and various eukaryotic clades independently achieved multicellularity...

Table of Contents:

• The Proterozoic Fossil Record of Heterotrophic Eukaryotes
• On the Morphological History of Proterozoic and Cambrian Acritarchs
• On the Morphological and Ecological History of Proterozoic Macroalgae
• Evolutionary Paleoecology of Ediacaran Benthic Marine Animals
• A Critical Look at the Ediacaran Trace Fossil Record
• The Developmental Origins of Animal Bodyplans
• Molecular Timescale of Evolution in the Proterozoic
• A Neoproterozoic Chronology
• On Neoproterozoic Cap Carbonates as Chronostratigraphic Markers.