Anmerkung: Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editors' Foreword -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Living brachiopods and palaeobiology -- Chapter 2 Apatite varieties in Recent and fossil linguloid brachiopod shells -- Chapter 3 Chemico-structural differentiation of the organocalcitic shells of rhynchonellate brachiopods -- Chapter 4 A TEM investigation of modulated microstructure in Recent and fossil articulate brachiopod shells from New Zealand -- Chapter 5 The acrosome reaction of the spermatozoa of the inarticulate brachiopod Lingula anatina -- Chapter 6 Brachiopod larval setae-a key to the phylum's ancestral life cycle? -- Chapter 7 Variation in the loops of two Recent species of Liothyrella (Brachiopoda -- Terebratuloidea) from New Zealand and… -- Chapter 8 Shell morphology and geographical distribution of Neocrania (Brachiopoda, Recent) in the eastern North Atlantic and -- Chapter 9 Developmental and settlement characteristics of the Antarctic brachiopod Liothyrella uva (Broderip 1833) -- Chapter 10 Embryonic shells of Devonian linguloid brachiopods -- Chapter 11 Global surface-water circulation and the main features of brachiopod biogeography -- Chapter 12 Fundamental differences in external spine growth in brachiopods -- Part II Advances in molecular studies -- Chapter 13 Brachiopod molecular phylogeny advances -- Chapter 14 Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of long-looped brachiopods -- Chapter 15 Phylogenetic relationships of brachiopods within the Metazoa based on mitochondrial amino acid sequence analyses -- Chapter 16 The phylogenetic position of brachiopods inferred from mitochondrial gene orders -- Chapter 17 Genetic differentiation of Terebratella sanguinea in the New Zealand fiords: a dispersal barrier in the marine… -- Part III Evolution and phylogeny. , Chapter 18 Functional morphology of articulatory structures and implications for patterns of musculature in Cambrian… -- Chapter 19 Early Silurian stricklandiid brachiopod evolution in eastern North America -- Chapter 20 Post-Palaeozoic Rhynchonellida (Brachiopoda): classification and evolutionary background -- Chapter 21 Radiations and extinctions of atrypide brachiopods: Ordovician-Devonian -- Chapter 22 Trends in athyridide diversity dynamics -- Chapter 23 The systematic position of some Upper Permian terebratulide genera -- Chapter 24 Ancestry and heterochronic origin of brachiopods of the Superfamily Megathyridoidea (Order Terebratulida): … -- Chapter 25 Thecideide phylogeny, heterochrony, and the gradual acquisition of characters -- Chapter 26 Incorporating stratigraphic data in the phylogenetic analysis of the Rhynchonelliformea -- Part IV Palaeoecology and ecology -- Chapter 27 Brachiopods of the Isca submarine cave: observations during ten years -- Chapter 28 Brachiopod/crinoid associations in the late Cenozoic of the Antillean region -- Chapter 29 Pragian-Emsian brachiopod communities of the Faou Formation (Massif Armoricain, France) -- Chapter 30 Palaeoecological interpretation of the brachiopod faunas of the Bardahessiagh Formation (middle Caradoc), Pomeroy, -- Part V Palaeobiogeography and biostratigraphy -- Chapter 31 Palaeolatitudinal distribution patterns of higher rhynchonelliform brachiopods in the early Ordovician -- Chapter 32 Distribution and diversity of Ordovician articulated brachiopods in the East Baltic -- Chapter 33 The orthide Platystrophia in the Ordovician and Early Silurian of the East Baltic -- Chapter 34 Silurian-Devonian biogeography -- Chapter 35 Extinction of some lingulate brachiopod families: new stratigraphical data from the Silurian and Devonian of…. , Chapter 36 Lower and Middle Permian brachiopods from Oman and Peri-Gondwanan palaeogeographical reconstructions -- Chapter 37 Permian Productida of Australasia: palaeobiogeographical and palaeoclimatological implications -- Chapter 38 A Permian Boreal brachiopod fauna from Okutadami, central Japan, and its tectonic implication -- Chapter 39 Brachiopod biostratigraphy of the Middle Triassic in Bulgaria and comparison with elsewhere in Europe -- Chapter 40 Mesozoic articulated brachiopods from the Western Cordillera of North America: their significance for… -- Chapter 41 Diversification of Mediterranean Early Jurassic brachiopods after the end-Triassic mass extinction-new results… -- Chapter 42 Stratigraphic distribution of brachiopods - a new method of storing and querying loosely-structured biodiversity… -- Index -- Systematics Association Publications.

Anmerkung: Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title Page -- A mid-Ordovician brachiopod evolutionary hotspot in southern Kazakhstan -- Introduction -- Geological setting and key sections -- Brachiopod associations -- Implications for biodiversity -- Localities -- Systematic palaeontology -- Acknowledgements -- References -- PLATES 1 - 21 -- Appendix -- End User License Agreement.

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