Brachiopods | Howard Brunton, L. Robin M. Cocks, Sarah L Long | Taylor

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ABSTRACT

The growth history of a brachiopod is entombed in its shell, but research on fossil and living brachiopods has generated unanswered questions about these marine invertebrates. Several contributors to Brachiopods Past and Present comment on their differing structures and morphological detail. They use these as examples of ontogenetic and evolutionar

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|4 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I Living brachiopods and palaeobiology

chapter 2|10 pages

Apatite varieties in Recent and fossil linguloid brachiopod shells

chapter 3|11 pages

Chemico-structural differentiation of the organocalcitic shells of rhynchonellate brachiopods

chapter 4|12 pages

A TEM investigation of modulated microstructure in Recent and fossil articulate brachiopod shells from New Zealand

chapter 5|6 pages

The acrosome reaction of the spermatozoa of the inarticulate brachiopod Lingula anatina

chapter 6|10 pages

Brachiopod larval setae – a key to the phylum’s ancestral life cycle?

chapter 7|15 pages

Variation in the loops of two Recent species of Liothyrella (Brachiopoda; Terebratuloidea) from New Zealand and…

chapter 8|9 pages

Shell morphology and geographical distribution of Neocrania (Brachiopoda, Recent) in the eastern North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea

chapter 9|11 pages

Developmental and settlement characteristics of the Antarctic brachiopod Liothyrella uva (Broderip 1833)

chapter 10|11 pages

Embryonic shells of Devonian linguloid brachiopods

chapter 11|6 pages

Global surface-water circulation and the main features of brachiopod biogeography

chapter 12|11 pages

Fundamental differences in external spine growth in brachiopods

part |2 pages

Part II Advances in molecular studies

chapter 13|8 pages

Brachiopod molecular phylogeny advances

chapter 14|9 pages

Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of long-looped brachiopods

chapter 15|4 pages

Phylogenetic relationships of brachiopods within the Metazoa based on mitochondrial amino acid sequence analyses

chapter 16|8 pages

The phylogenetic position of brachiopods inferred from mitochondrial gene orders

chapter 17|11 pages

Genetic differentiation of Terebratella sanguinea in the New Zealand fiords: a dispersal barrier in the marine environment?

part |2 pages

Part III Evolution and phylogeny

chapter 18|14 pages

Functional morphology of articulatory structures and implications for patterns of musculature in Cambrian rhynchonelliform brachiopods

chapter 19|12 pages

Early Silurian stricklandiid brachiopod evolution in eastern North America

chapter 20|12 pages

Post-Palaeozoic Rhynchonellida (Brachiopoda): classification and evolutionary background

chapter 21|11 pages

Radiations and extinctions of atrypide brachiopods: Ordovician–Devonian

chapter 22|12 pages

Trends in athyridide diversity dynamics

chapter 23|5 pages

The systematic position of some Upper Permian terebratulide genera

chapter 24|11 pages

Ancestry and heterochronic origin of brachiopods of the Superfamily Megathyridoidea (Order Terebratulida): a case of natural selection for equatorial dwarfism?

chapter 25|8 pages

Thecideide phylogeny, heterochrony, and the gradual acquisition of characters

chapter 26|11 pages

Incorporating stratigraphic data in the phylogenetic analysis of the Rhynchonelliformea

part |2 pages

Part IV Palaeoecology and ecology

chapter 27|7 pages

Brachiopods of the Isca submarine cave: observations during ten years

chapter 28|7 pages

Brachiopod/crinoid associations in the late Cenozoic of the Antillean region

chapter 29|10 pages

Pragian–Emsian brachiopod communities of the Faou Formation (Massif Armoricain, France)

chapter 30|12 pages

Palaeoecological interpretation of the brachiopod faunas of the Bardahessiagh Formation (middle Caradoc), Pomeroy,

part |2 pages

Part V Palaeobiogeography and biostratigraphy

chapter 31|16 pages

Palaeolatitudinal distribution patterns of higher rhynchonelliform brachiopods in the early Ordovician

chapter 32|12 pages

Distribution and diversity of Ordovician articulated brachiopods in the East Baltic

chapter 33|8 pages

The orthide Platystrophia in the Ordovician and Early Silurian of the East Baltic

chapter 34|10 pages

Silurian–Devonian biogeography

chapter 35|7 pages

Extinction of some lingulate brachiopod families: new stratigraphical data from the Silurian and Devonian of Central Bohemia

chapter 36|11 pages

Lower and Middle Permian brachiopods from Oman and Peri-Gondwanan palaeogeographical reconstructions

chapter 37|10 pages

Permian Productida of Australasia: palaeobiogeographical and palaeoclimatological implications

chapter 38|11 pages

A Permian Boreal brachiopod fauna from Okutadami, central Japan, and its tectonic implication

chapter 39|10 pages

Brachiopod biostratigraphy of the Middle Triassic in Bulgaria and comparison with elsewhere in Europe

chapter 40|17 pages

Mesozoic articulated brachiopods from the Western Cordillera of North America: their significance for palaeogeographic and tectonic reconstruction, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology

chapter 41|13 pages

Diversification of Mediterranean Early Jurassic brachiopods after the end-Triassic mass extinction – new results from Hungary

chapter 42|10 pages

Stratigraphic distribution of brachiopods – a new method of storing and querying loosely-structured biodiversity information