Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Insights from the Tafilalt Biota, Morocco
Product code: SP485
Print publication date: 21/06/2022
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth and Solar System History, Palaeontology and geobiology
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781786204073
Author/Edited by: Edited by: A.W. Hunter, J.J. Álvaro, B. Lefebvre, P. Van Roy, S. Zamora
Weight: 1.5kg
Number of pages: 615
Online publication date: 23/05/2022
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/485/1
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Special Publication 485
About 40 million years after the Cambrian Explosion, the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) represents a second and dramatic burst in marine biodiversity, with major changes in the structure of ecosystems and the progressive replacement of the distinctive Cambrian Evolutionary Fauna by the Paleozoic Evolutionary Fauna. However, the GOBE is not a single, worldwide, short-term event, but rather the complex sum of successive diversifications occurring in distinct taxonomic groups, trophic guilds and regions. This book focuses on the Late Ordovician Tafilalt Biota, Anti-Atlas Morocco, which provides a snapshot of the GOBE in high-latitude regions of the Southern Hemisphere. A series of contributions explore different aspects of the Tafilalt Biota, including its geological setting, the international fossil trade in this area and a series of detailed systematic contributions describing many new taxa of marine invertebrates. This volume represents a significant contribution to the understanding of the Tafilalt Biota and its significance to the GOBE.
Dedication
Hunter, A. W., Álvaro, J. J., Lefebvre, B., Van Roy, P. and Zamora, S. An introduction to the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: insights from the Tafilalt Biota, Morocco
Geological and faunal context
Lefebvre, B., Van Roy, P., Zamora, S., Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. and Nohejlová, M. The Late Ordovician Tafilalt Biota, Anti-Atlas, Morocco: A high-latitude perspective on the GOBE
Álvaro, J. J., Benharref, M., Destombes, J., Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., Hunter, A. W., Lefebvre, B., Van Roy, P. and Zamora, S. Ordovician stratigraphy and benthic community replacements in the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco
International fossil trade
Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. and García-Bellido, D. C. The international fossil trade from the Paleozoic of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco
Early Paleozoic faunas from the Anti-Atlas
Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., Pereira, S., García-Bellido, D. C. and Rábano, I. Ordovician trilobites from the Tafilalt Lagerstätte: new data and reappraisal of the Bou Nemrou assemblage
Budil, P. and Fatka, O. Ordovician trilobites with soft parts in African West Gondwana, European peri-Gondwana and Avalonia: a review
Colmenar, J., Villas, E. and Rasmussen, C. M. Ø. A synopsis of Late Ordovician brachiopod diversity in the Anti-Atlas, Morocco
Villas, E. and Colmenar, J. Brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician of Erfoud (eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco) and the stratigraphic correlation of the bryozoan-rich Khabt-el Hajar Formation
Van Iten, H., Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., Muir, L. A., Simões, M. G. and Leme, J. M. Ordovician conulariids (Scyphozoa) from the Upper Tiouririne Formation (Katian), eastern Anti-Atlas Mountains, southern Morocco Ernst, A. Upper Ordovician bryozoans of Morocco
Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., Muir, L. A. and Mitchell, C. E. Upper Ordovician planktic and benthic graptolites and a possible hydroid from the Tafilalt Biota, southeastern Morocco
Ebbestad, J. O. R., Polechová, M., Kröger, B. and Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. Late Ordovician molluscs of the central and eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco
Muir, L. A., Botting, J. P., Walker, S. N. A., Schiffbauer, J. D. and MacGabhann, B. A. Onuphionella corusca sp. nov.: an early Cambrian-type agglutinated tube from Upper Ordovician strata of Morocco
Echinoderm Lagerstätten
Lefebvre, B., Nohejlová, M., Kašička, L. and Zicha, O. New peri-Gondwanan occurrences of the Ordovician genus Diamphidiocystis (Echinodermata, Stylophora): implications for mitrocystitid palaeobiogeography and diversity
Lefebvre, B., Nohejlová, M., Martin, E. L. O., Kašička, L., Zicha, O. and Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. New Middle and Late Ordovician cornute stylophorans (Echinodermata) from Morocco and other peri-Gondwanan areas
Nohejlová, M. and Lefebvre, B. Late Ordovician solutan echinoderms from the Western Tafilalt, Morocco
Botting, J. P. Late Ordovician crinoids from the Anti-Atlas region of Morocco
Sumrall, C. D. and Zamora, S. New Upper Ordovician edrioasteroids from Morocco
Zamora, S. and Sumrall, C. D. Hexedriocystis, an aberrant echinoderm from the Upper Ordovician of Morocco
Zamora, S., Nardin, E., Esteve, J. and Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. New rhombiferan blastozoans (Echinodermata) from the Late Ordovician of Morocco
Zamora, S. and Sumrall, C. D. The first report of coronates (echinodermata) from Africa
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