Deep Time Analysis A Coherent View of the History of Life /

• Main Author: McMenamin, Mark A.S (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Geology,
• Subjects: Paleontology .; Historical geology.; Geobiology.; Evolutionary biology.; Paleontology.; Historical Geology.; Biogeosciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

Using a series of case studies, the book demonstrates the power of dynamic analysis as applied to the fossil record. The book considers how we think about certain types of paleontological questions and shows how to answer them. The analytical tools presented here will have wide application to other...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Seventh Law
• Chapter 2. Shuram Excursion
• Chapter 3. Clemente Biota
• Chapter 4. Crystal Creature
• Chapter 5. Trace Fossil Geometry
• Chapter 6. Albion's Ænigma
• Chapter 7. Coelacanth Vestiges
• Chapter 8. Barasaurus Squamation
• Chapter 9. Tetrapteryx
• Chapter 10. Zealanditherians
• Chapter 11. Bifaces to the Ends of the Earth
• Chapter 12. Feldspar Point. .