Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms: Lessons from the Living

ISBN-13: 9789402403251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 420 str.

Daniel I. Hembree; Brian F. Platt; Jon J. Smith

Opis

Paleontologists and geologists struggle with research questions often complicated by the loss or even absence of key paleobiological and paleoenvironmental information.

Recenzje

"The volume edited by Hembree et al. is a must read to specialists in experimental palaeontology. lt is also recommended strongly to professional palaeobiologists and ichnologists. Researchers in fossil arthropods, bivalves, crinoids, mammals, and some other creatures will find much useful there, too. Finally, some geochemists and sedimentologists have to pay attention to this book." (Dmitry A. Ruban, Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Vol. 2016 (3-4), December, 2016)

"This edited volume consists of 17 chapters organized into three parts: functional morphology, taphonomy and environment, and organism-substrate interaction. ... This volume will be of particular use for graduate students and those teaching graduate-level methods courses, where one can examine and compare numerous experimental designs and analytical techniques. ... there is much to recommend in this comprehensive and well-written volume for the student and professional paleobiologist ... ." (Christopher R. Noto, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 91 (3), September, 2016)

Spis treści

Part I Functional Morphology 

1. Crinoids Aweigh: Experimental Biomechanics of Ancyrocrinus Holdfasts         

Roy E. Plotnick and Jennifer Bauer 

2. Ultra-elongate freshwater pearly mussels (Unionida): Roles for function and constraint in multiple morphologic convergences with marine taxa

Laurie C. Anderson 

3. Relationships of Internal Shell Features to Chemosymbiosis, Life Position, and Geometric Constraints within the Lucinidae (Bivalvia)

Laurie C. Anderson 

4. Modern Analogs for the Study of Eurypterid Paleobiology

Danita S. Brandt and Victoria McCoy 

5. New Applications for Constrained Ordination: Reconstructing Feeding Behaviors in Fossil Remingtonocetinae (Cetacea: Mammalia)

Lisa Noelle Cooper, Tobin L. Hieronymus, Christopher J. Vinyard, Sunil Bajpai, and J.G.M. Thewissen 

Part II Taphonomy and Environment 

6. Patterns in Microbialites Throughout Geologic Time: Is the Present Really the Key to the Past?

Kristen L. Myshrall, Christophe Dupraz, Pieter T. Visscher 

7 The Relationship Between Modern Mollusk Assemblages and their Expression in Subsurface Sediment in a Carbonate Lagoon, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

Karla Parsons-Hubbard, Dennis Hubbard, Caitlin Tems, and Ashley Burkett 

8. Biotic Segregation In An Upper Mesotidal Dissipative Ridge And Runnel Succession, West Salish Sea, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

John-Paul Zonneveld, Murray K. Gingras, Cheryl A. Hodgson, Luke P. McHugh,  Reed A. Myers, Jesse A. Schoengut, and Bryce Wetthuhn 

9. Using X-ray Radiography to Observe Fe distributions in Bioturbated Sediment

Murray K. Gingras, John-Paul Zonneveld, and Kurt O. Konhauser 

10. Phytoliths as Tracers of Recent Environmental Change

Ethan G. Hyland

Part III Organism-Substrate Interaction 

11. Large Complex Burrows of Terrestrial Invertebrates: Neoichnology of Pandinus imperator (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae)

Daniel I. Hembree 

12. Biomechanical Analysis of Fish Swimming Trace Fossils (Undichna): Preservation and Mode of Locomotion

María Cristina Cardonattoand Ricardo Néstor Melchor 

13. The Neoichnology of Two Terrestrial Ambystomatid Salamanders: Quantifying Amphibian Burrows Using Modern Analogues

Nicole D. Dzenowski and Daniel I. Hembree 

14. Biogenic Structures of Burrowing Skinks: Neoichnology of Mabuya multifaciata (Squamata: Scincidae)

Angeline Catena and Daniel I. Hembree

15. Novel Neoichnology of Elephants: Nonlocomotive Interactions with Sediment, Locomotion Traces in Partially Snow-Covered Sediment, and Implications for Proboscidean Paleoichnology

Brian F. Platt and Stephen T. Hasiotis 

16. Burrows and Related Traces in Snow and Vegetation Produced by the Norwegian Lemming (Lemmuslemmus)

Dirk Knaust 

17. Near-Surface Imaging (GPR) of Biogenic Structures in Siliciclastic, Carbonate, and Gypsum Dunes

Ilya V. Buynevich, H. Allen Curran, Logan A. Wiest, Andrew P.K. Bentley, Sergey V. Kadurin, Christopher T. Seminack, Michael Savarese, David Bustos, Bosiljka  Glumac, and Igor A.Losev

O autorze

Daniel I. Hembree, Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University; PhD University of Kansas 2005.

Brian F. Platt, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, University of Mississippi; PhD University of Kansas 2012.

Jon J. Smith, Assistant Scientist, Stratigraphic Research Group, Kansas Geological Survey; PhD University of Kansas 2007.

Blurb

Paleontologists and geologists struggle with research questions often complicated by the loss or even absence of key paleobiological and paleoenvironmental information. Insight into this missing data can be gained through direct exploration of analogous living organisms and modern environments. Creative, experimental, and interdisciplinary treatments of such ancient-Earth analogs form the basis of this volume. It unites a diverse range of expert paleontologists, neontologists, and geologists presenting case studies that cover a spectrum of topics, including functional morphology, taphonomy, environments, and organism-substrate interactions.