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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events
    sub title: Volume 2: Mesozoic and Cenozoic
  name:
    name part: Mángano, M. Gabriela.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Buatois, Luis A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 485 p. 93 illus., 58 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This volume addresses major evolutionary changes that took place during the Mesozoic and the Cenozoic. These include discussions on major evolutionary radiations and ecological innovations on land and at sea, such as the Mesozoic marine revolution, the Mesozoic radiation of vertebrates, the Mesozoic lacustrine revolution, the Cenozoic radiation of mammals, the evolution of paleosol biotas, and the evolution of hominins. The roles of mass extinctions at the end of the Triassic and at the end of the Cretaceous are assessed. This volume set provides innovative reviews of the major evolutionary events in the history of life from an ichnologic perspective. Because the long temporal range of trace fossils has been commonly emphasized, biogenic structures have been traditionally overlooked in macroevolution. However, comparisons of ichnofaunas through geologic time do reveal the changing ecology of organism-substrate interactions. The use of trace fossils in evolutionary paleoecology represents a new trend that is opening a window for our understanding of major evolutionary radiations and mass extinctions. Trace fossils provide crucial evidence for the recognition of spatial and temporal patterns and processes associated with paleoecologic breakthroughs.
  table of contents: 1. The end-Triassic mass extinction -- 2. The Mesozoic marine revolution -- 3. The Mesozoic vertebrate radiation -- 4. The Mesozoic lacustrine revolution -- 5. The end-Cretaceous mass extinction -- 6. The Phanerozoic four revolutions and the evolution of paleosol ichnofacies -- 7. The Cenozoic evolution of mammals -- 8. The evolution of hominids -- 9. Recurrent patterns and processes: The macroevolutionary significance of ichnology.
  note: edited by M. Gabriela Mángano, Luis A. Buatois.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Geobiology
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental geology
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology/Natural Processes
  subject:
    topic: Biogeosciences
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  classification: QE38
  classification: 333.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Topics in Geobiology, 40
  identifier: 9789401795975
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9597-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 161118
    record change date: 20161118112441.0
    record identifier: 978-94-017-9597-5