Palaeobiology of Middle Paleozoic Marine Brachiopods

A Case Study of Extinct Organisms in Classical Paleontology

Rituparna Bose author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:3rd Jun '13

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Palaeobiology of Middle Paleozoic Marine Brachiopods cover

Fossil species appear to persist morphologically unchanged for long intervals of geologic time, punctuated by short bursts of rapid change as explained by the Ecological Evolutionary Units (EEUs). Here, morphological variation in Paleozoic atrypide morphology at the subfamily level (Atrypinae and Variatrypinae) from the Silurian and Devonian time intervals in the third Paleozoic EEU (~444-359 my) were investigated using relatively new techniques of quantitative modeling. The study explains how a group of closely related taxa in atrypide subfamilies exhibit morphological conservation through time in P3 EEU within the Eastern North America region.

ISBN: 9783319001937

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1182g

53 pages

2013 ed.