Comparative evolutionary palaeoecology: Assessing the changing ecology of the past

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 102, Issue , 1996, Pages 1-13

  Bottjer, David J ^a   Schubert, Jennifer K ^b   Droser, Mary L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006066730     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.01     Document Type: Review

References (62)

1. ALLISON, P. A. & BRIGGS, D. E. G. 1993. Exceptional fossil record: Distribution of soft-tissue preserveation through the Phanerozoic. Geology, 21, 527-530.
2. AUSICH, W. I. & BOTTJER, D. J. 1982. Tiering in suspension-feeding communities on soft substrata throughout the Phanerozoic. Science, 216, 173-174.
3. _, & _ 1985. Phanerozoic tiering in suspension-feeding communities on soft substrate: Implications for diversity. In: VALENTINE, J. W. (ed.) Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns. Princeton University 255-274.
4. _, & _ 1991. History of tiering among suspension-feeders in the benthic marine ecosystem. Journal of Geological Education, 39, 313-319.
5. AWRAMIK, S. M. 1971. Precambrian columnar stro-matolite diversity: reflection of metazoan appearance. Science, 174, 825-827.
6. _ 1990. Stromatolites. In: BRIGGS, D. E. G. & CROWTHER, P. R. (eds) Palaeobiology - Synthesis. Blackwell, Oxford, 336-341.
7. _ 1991. Archaean and proterozoic stromatolites. In: RIDING, R. (ed.) Calcareous Algae and Stromatolites. Springer, Berlin, 289-304.
8. BAMBACH, R. K. 1977. Species richness in marine benthic habitats through the Phanerozoic. Paleobiology, 3, 152-167.
9. _ 1983. Ecospace utilization and guilds in marine communities through the Phanerozoic. In TEVESZ, M. J. S. & McCALL, P. L. (eds) Biotic Interactions in Recent and Fossil Benthic Communities. Pleaum, New York, 719-746.
10. _ 1986. Phanerozoic marine communities. In: RAUP, D. M. & JABLONSKI, D. (eds) Patterns and Process in the History of Life. Springer, Berlin, 407-428.
11. BOTTJER, D. J. & AUSICH, W. I. 1986. Phanerozoic development of tiering in soft substrats suspension-feeding communites. Paleobiology, 12, 400-420.
12. _ & JABLONSKI, D. 1988. Paleoenvironmental patterns in the evolution of post-Paleozoic benthic marine invertebrates. Palaios, 3, 540-560.
13. _, CAMPBELL, K. A., SCHUBERT, J. K. &. DROSER, M. L. 1995. Palaeoecological models, non-uniformitarianism, and tracking the changing ecology of the past. In: BOSENCE, D. W. J. & ALLISON, P. A. (eds) Marine Palaeoenvironmental Analysis from Fossils. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 83, 7-26.
14. _, DROSER, M. L. & JABLONSKI, D. 1988. Palaeoenvironmental trends in the history of trace fossils. Nature, 333, 252-255.
15. _, SCHUBERT, J. K. & DROSER, M. L. 1993. Bioturbation and the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 25, A-155.
16. BRAGA, J. C, MARTIN, J. M. & RIDING, R. 1995. Controls on microbial dome fabric development along a carbonate-siliciclastic shelf-basin transect, Miocene, SE Spain. Palaios, 10, 347-361.
17. DEVANEY, J. R. 1991. Sedimentological highlights of the Lower Triassic Bjorne Formation, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Archipelago. Current Research, Part B, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 91-1B, 33-40.
18. DROSER, M. L. 1991. Ichnofabric of the Paleozoic Skolithos ichnofacies and the nature and distribution of Skolithos piperock. Palaios, 6, 316-325.
19. _ & BOTTJER, D. J. 1986. A semiquantitative classification of ichnofabric. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 56, 558-559.
20. _ & _ 1988. Trends in extent and depth of bioturbation in Cambrian carbonate marine environments, western United States. Geology, 16, 233-236.
21. _ & _ 1989. Ordovician increase in extent and depth of bioturbation: Implications for understanding early Paleozoic ecospace utilization. Geology, 17, 850-852.
22. _ & _ 1990. Ichnofabric of sandstones deposited in high-energy nearshore environments: Measurement and utilization. Palaios, 4, 598-604.
23. _ & _ 1993. Trends and patterns of Phanerozoic ichnofabrics. Annual Review of Earth and Planeary Sciences, 21, 205-225
24. EKDALE, A. A. & BROMLEY, R. G. 1983. Trace fossils and ichnofabric in the Kjolby Gaard Marl, Upper Cretaceous, Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 31, 107-119.
25. ERWIN, D. H. 1993. The Great Paleozoic Crisis: Life and Death in the Permian. Columbia University Press, New York.
26. _ 1994. Early introduction of major morphological innovations. Acta Palacontologica Polonica, 38, 281-294.
27. _, VALENTINE, J. W. & SEPKOSKI, J. J. JR. 1987. A comparative study of diversification events: The early Paleozoic versus the Mesozoic. Evolution, 41, 1177-1186.
28. GARRETT, P. 1970. Phanerozoic stromatolitec: noncompetitive ecologic restriction by grazing and burrowing animals. Science, 169, 171-173.
29. HALLAM, A. 1991. Why was there a delayed radiation after the end-Palaeozoic extinction? Historical Biology, 5, 257-262.
30. _ 1995. The earliest Triassic as an anoxic event, and its relationship to the end-Palaeozoic mass extinction. Canadian Society of Pertroleum Geologists Memoir, 17, 797-804
31. HARLAND, W. B., ARMSTRONG, R. L., Cox, A V., CRAIG, L. E., SMITM, A. G. & SMITH, D. G. 1990. A Geologic Time Scale 1989. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
32. JABOLONSKI, D. & BOTTJER, D. J. 1983. Soft-bottom Late Cretaceous: Implication for the evolution of benthic paleocommunities In: TEVESZ, M. J. S. & McCALL, P. L. (eds) Biotic Interactions in Recent and Fossil Benthic Communities. Plenum, New York, 747-812.
33. _ A _ 1990. The ecology of evolutionary innovation: The fossil record. In: NITECKI, M. H. (ed.) Evolutionary Innovation. University of Chicago Press, 253-288.
34. _ & _ 1991. Environmental patterns in the origins of higher taxa: The post-Paleozoic fossil record. Science, 252, 1831-1833.
35. KIDWELL, S. M. 1990. Phanerozoic evolution of macroinvertebrate shell accumulations. In: MILLER, W. III (ed.) Paleocommunity Temporal Dynamics: The Long Term Development of Multispecies Assemblages. Paleontological Society, Special Publication, 5, 305-327.
36. _ 1991. The stratigraphy of shell concentrations. In: ALLISON, P. A. & BRIGGS, D. E. G. (eds) Taphonomy: Releasing the Data Locked in the Fossil Record. Plenum, New York, 211-290.
37. _ 1993. Patterns of time-averaging in the shallow marine fossil record, in: KIDWELL, S. M. & BEHRENSMEYER, A. K. (eds) Taphonomic Approaches to Time Resolution at Fossil Assemblages. Paleontological Society, Short Courses in Paleontology, 6, 275-300.
38. _ & BOSENCE, D. W. J. 1991. Taphonomy and time-averaging of marine shelly faunas. In: ALLISON, P. W. & BRIGGS, D. E. G. (eds) Taphonomy: Releasing the Data Locked in the Fossil Record. Plenum, New York, 211-290.
39. Li, X. & DROSER, M. L. 1992. The development of Early Paleozoic shell concentration: Evidence from the Cambrian and Ordovician of the Great Basin. Fifth North American Paleontological Convention Abstracts and Programs, 183.
40. MCGHEE, G. R. JR. 1996. The Late Devonian Mass Extinction: The Frasnian/Famennian Crisis. Columbia University Press, New York.
41. PRATT, B. R. 1982. Stromatolite decline - A reconsideration. Geology, 10, 512-515
42. RAUP, D. M. 1979. Size of the Permian/Triassic bottleneck and its evolutionary implications. Science, 206, 217-211
43. SCHUBERT, J. K. 1993. Rebound from the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event: Paleoecology of Lower Triassic carbonates in the western U.S. PhD Thesis, University of Southern California.
44. _ & BOTTJER, D. J. 1992a. Early Triassic forms. Geology, 20, 883-886.
45. _ & _ 1992b. Paleobiology of the oldest known articulate crinoid. Lethaia, 25, 97-110.
46. _ & _ 1995. Aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event: Palacoecology of Lower Triassic carbonates in the western U.S. Palaeogeography. Palaeoclimatology. Palaeoecology, 116, 1-39.
47. SEPKOSKI, J. J. JR. 1981. A factor analytic description of the Phanerozoic marine fossil record. Paleobiology, 7, 36-53.
48. _ 1991. A model of onshore-offshore change in faunal diversity. Paleobiology, 17, 58-77.
49. _ 1992. Phylogenetic and ecologic patterns in the Phanerozoic history of marine biodiversity. In: ELDREDGHE N. (ed.) Systematics, Ecology, and the Biodiversity Crisis. Columba University Press, 77-100.
50. _ & MILLER, A. I. 1985. Evolutionary faunas and the distribution of Paleozoic marine communities in space and time. In: VALENTINE, J. W. (ed.) Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns: Profiles in Macroevolution. Princeton University Press, 153-190.
51. _ & SHEEHAN, P. M. 1983. Diversification, faunal Ordovician radiation. In: TEVEST, M. J. S. & MCCALL, P. L. (eds) Biotic Interactions in Recent and Fossil Benthic Communities. Plenum, New York, 673-717.
52. _, BAMBACH R. K. & DROSER, M. L. 1991 Secular changes in Phanerozoic event bedding and the biological overprint. In: EINSELE, G., RICKEN, W. & SEILACHER, A. (eds) Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy. Springer, Berlin, 298-312.
53. VALENTINE, J. W. 1973. Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Marine Biosphere. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
54. _ 1980. Determinats of diversity in higher taxonomic categories. Paleobiology, 6 444-450.
55. _ 1986. Fossil record of the origin of Bauplȧne and its implications. In: RAUP, D. M. & JABLON-SKI, D. (eds) Patterns and Processes in the History of Life. Springer, Berlin, 209-222.
56. _ 1992. The macroevolution of phyla. In: LIPPS, J. H. & SIGNOR, P. W. (eds) Origin and Early Evolution of the metazoa. Plenum, New York, 525-553.
57. _ 1995. Why no new phyla after the Cambrian? Genome and ecospace hypotheses revisited. Palaios 10, 192-196
58. _ & ERWIN, D. H. 1987. Interpreting great developmental experiments: The fossil record. In: RAFF, R. A. & RAFF, E. C. (eds) Development as an Evolutionary Process. Alan R. Liss, New York, 71-107.
59. VERMEIJ, G. J. 1987. Evolution and Escalation; An Ecological History of Life. Princeton University Press.
60. WALTER, M. R. & HEYS, G. R. 1985. Links between the rise of the Metazon and the decline of stromatolites. Precambrian Research 29, 149-174.
61. WATKINS, R. 1991. Guild structure and tiering in a hign-diversity Silurian community, Milwaukee Country, Wisconsin. Palaios, 6, 465-478.
62. WIGNALL, P. B. & HALLAM, A. 1992. Anoxia as a cause of the Permian/Ttiassic extinction: Facies evidence from northern Italy and the western United States. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology. Palacoecology, 92, 21-46