Extractions: Openbook Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-iv Contents, pp. v-viii William L. Brown, pp. 1-23 Kenneth Stewart Cole, pp. 24-45 Henry Eyring, pp. 46-57 Alfred Gilman, pp. 58-81 Henry Gilman, pp. 82-115 Morris Howard Hansen, pp. 116-137 Robert Paul Hanson, pp. 138-155 Robert Fleming Heizer, pp. 156-173 Frederick Seymour Hulse, pp. 174-180 Leon Orris Jacobson, pp. 190-203 Warren Kendall Lewis, pp. 204-219 Choh Hao Li, pp. 220-239 Bernd Theodor Matthias, pp. 240-259 Egon Orowan, pp. 260-319 Efraim Racker, pp. 320-347 Herschel L. Roman, pp. 348-367 Harry Lionel Shapiro, pp. 368-387 Frank Ludvig Spitzer, pp. 388-405 Merle Antony Tuve, pp. 406-423 John West Wells, pp. 424-436
GEOL 331 Lectures 38-39: Major Patterns In Paleontology Fall Semester 2002 Major Patterns in paleontology. Late Devonian extinction tabulatecorals and stromatoporoid decapod crustaceans, teleost fish, etc.) during http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G331/331hist.htm
Extractions: Major Patterns in Paleontology Interactions between biotic and abiotic world. Some represent short term events; other long term trends. Classic examples: mass extinctions, often with abiotic causes but causing major rearrangements of biotic communities. Long Fuse of Cambrian Explosion: abiotic changes in oceanic chemistry leading to (incrementally greater) ability of organisms to form calcareous hard parts. Cambrian Substrate Revolution: advances in organisms (infaunal burrowing; epifaunal grazers) elimate algal matgrounds; loss of matground in oxygenated waters means loss of basal substrate for some groups (helioplacoids, for example). Calcite vs. Aragonite seas When midocean ridges have low activity, high levels of Mg relative to Ca: aragonite seas with reduced reef building activity and aragonite is main mineral in cements and ooids When midocean ridges have high activity, low Mg/Ca ratios: calcite seas with increased reef building activity and calcite is main mineral in cements and ooids Early Cambrian through mid-Mississippian, calcite seas
Thiel Aqua Tech Explore, Links To Other Sites Perhaps the Largest Reference on corals and Researchers you will ever come accross.Site with a larger number of graphics on fish and invertebrates; Aquatics http://www.athiel.com/html/explore.html
Extractions: Explore! Connections to Dozens and Dozens of Aquarium Sites Last updated: March 26, 2000 No need to flounder around, just click on any of these links to access a veritable "ocean" of information. If we've missed any you find particularly interesting, please let us know: Email Me Saltwater Aquarium Mining Company Guides . A very large site on Aquaruims and related information. The ORAS Newsletter Caltech's Aquarium Ref and Faq link . Plenty of information here for sure. The New Netpets Site Join Netpets and get a Logo that you are a member of the NetPets Family here The M.A.R.S. Site in France . Both English and French versions are available. Aquarium Frontiers Lots of Pictures of Fish and Inverts Stores in the USA on the FINS site Tetra Site ... Master Index of Freshwater Fishes . This is the site to visit if you need to find photos of freshwater fish to view. AquaScape's New Site TAT was awarded the 1996 Commercial Award of the Year by this Site.
Journal Of Paleontology - Supplementary Database JOURNAL OF paleontology. Rodrigues de Aguilera An exceptional costal upwelling fishassemblage in the Middle Miocene recovery of Caribbean reef corals New data http://www.journalofpaleontology.org/database.html
IExplore | Day By Day Itinerary wall showcases a profusion of black corals, sponges, reef fish and other http://iexplore.nationalgeographic.com/intmap/15248
Extractions: Home Site Index MAGAZINES: National Traveler Adventure NG Kids NG Explorer TV AND FILM: Channel (U.S.) Channel (Intl) Explorer More TV SUBJECTS: About National Adventure Animals Education History and Kids Maps and News Photography Science and Travel Shop Complete Site Site Index Subscribe Shop Home ... Search Results Itinerary E-mail this page Keyword Search Help Trip Details On Bartolome, a lunar landscape stretches out in front of us. This young Island is inhospitable to most plants and animals. After a dry landing, climb 30-,inutes up a steep slope to the summit of a once active volcano. Pause along the way to marvel at lava bombs, spatter cones and cinder cones. From the top, gaze out across a panoramic view including the famous "Pinnacle Rock", an eroded tuff cone. Down below, crystal clear water invites you to snorkel with schools of tropical fish. Penguins often swim in this area. At Cousins Rock, an intermediate dive, experience pelagic fish including white- tipped, hammerhead sharks, manta rays and eagle rays, An outstanding vertical wall showcases a profusion of black corals, sponges, reef fish and other invertebrates. Visibility varies. Maximum depth is 70 feet.
Paleontology Glossary C Thru D Cnidarians include jellyfish, corals, anemones, etc.. corals, sea anemones, jellyfish, and colonial hydroids are all included within the Phylum Cnidaria. http://www.colorado-mall.com/HTML/EDUCATIONAL/SCIENCES/PALEONTOLOGY/GLOSSARY/glo
The Devonian An overview of the period from the UC Berkeley Museum of paleontology.Category Science Earth Sciences Paleozoic Devonian and other echinoderms, tabulate and rugose corals, and ammonites Many new kinds offish appeared. Karl Wilson's site on New York paleontology, which includes a http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/devonian/devonian.html
Extractions: The Rhynie Chert in Scotland is a Devonian age deposit containing fossils of both Zosterophyllophytes and Trimerophytes, the two major lines of vascular plants. This indicates that prior to the start of the Devonian, the first major radiations of the plants had already happened. The oldest known vascular plants in the Northern Hemisphere are Devonian. The vegetation of the early Devonian consisted primarily of small plants, the tallest being only a meter tall. By the end of the Devonian, ferns, horsetails and seed plants had also appeared, producing the first trees and the first forests. Archaeopteris , shown below left, is one of these first trees. Also during the Devonian, two major animal groups colonized the land. The first tetrapods , or land-living vertebrates , appeared during the Devonian, as did the first terrestrial arthropods , including wingless insects and the earliest arachnids . In the oceans, brachiopods flourished, like the beautifully pyritized brachiopod Paraspirifer bownockeri from Ohio, pictured above and to the right. Crinoids and other
Nearctica - Natural History - Cnidaria And Ctenophora The Anthozoa consists of the corals, sea anenomes walnuts) look very much like jellyfish and share Museum of paleontology, University of California at Berkeley http://www.nearctica.com/nathist/miscanim/cnidaria.htm
Extractions: Cnidaria and Ctenophora Special Segments Butterflies of North America Conifers of North America Eastern Birds Home General Topics Natural History Ecology Family Environment Evolution Home Education Home Conservation Geophysics Paleontology Commercial Organizations Cnidaria Ctenophora CNIDARIA The Cnidaria are divided into three major groups. Hydrozoa - The Hydrozoa consists of the hydra-like animals. Both medusa and hydra stages exist in this species, although the hydra (polyp) stage is by far the more conspicuous. Scyphozoa - The Scyphozoa are the jellyfish. The polyp stage is very small and inconspicuous and the medusa (jellyfish) stage dominates. Anthozoa - The Anthozoa consists of the corals, sea anenomes, sea fans, and a variety of other marine organisms. The medusa stage of the life cycle has been completely lost in these animals. CTENOPHORA The Ctenophora (comb jellies or sea walnuts) look very much like jelly fish and share many of their morphological features such as radially symmetry, a sack-like body with a wall consisting of three layers. Unlike the Cnidaria, however, they lack independent mesodermal muscles, nematocysts (stinging cells), and the polyp-medusa life cycle. The group is characterized by eight ciliary plates (combs). The cilia in these combs wave in unison and enable the animal to swim about, although somewhat weakly.
Evolution: Glossary conodont A jawless fish that had tiny, toothlike of the extinct rugose and tabulatecorals are known Author of two books on paleontology for young people. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/glossary/
Extractions: adaptive landscape: A graph of the average fitness of a population in relation to the frequencies of genotypes in it. Peaks on the landscape correspond to genotypic frequencies at which the average fitness is high, valleys to genotypic frequencies at which the average fitness is low. Also called a fitness surface. adaptive logic: A behavior has adaptive logic if it tends to increase the number of offspring that an individual contributes to the next and following generations. If such a behavior is even partly genetically determined, it will tend to become widespread in the population. Then, even if circumstances change such that it no longer provides any survival or reproductive advantage, the behavior will still tend to be exhibited unless it becomes positively disadvantageous in the new environment.
Fac 3. Middle Devonian Auloporid corals from the Traverse new record of the Chondrichthyanfish, Physonemus mirabilis Tulane Studies in Geology and paleontology, vol http://www.mwsu.edu/htmldocs/departments/geology/fac.htm
Extractions: FACULTY Geology Program Midwestern State University Chairman M. John Kocurko Professor... M. John Kocurko , Ph.D. - Texas Tech University 1972; M.S. - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee 1969; B.S. - Midwestern State University 1966. Contact: fkocurkj@nexus.mwsu.edu Specialties: Carbonate Sedimentology, Structural Geology, Paleontology. Publications 1. A paleoenvironmental investigation of San Andres Island, Colombia: A study of carbonate rocks: Dissertation Abstracts International, Vol. XXXIV, 1973. 2. Modern and ancient reef complexes and associated limestone diagenesis of San Andres Island Colombia: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, vol. 24, p. 107-127, 1974. 3. Modern marine environments of San Andres Island Colombia: Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 111-134, 1977. 4. Silicification of calcium phosphate in a carbonate environment, San Andres , Colombia: co-author D.J. Robertson, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, vol.61, no. 5, p. 804, 1977. 5. Dolomitization by spray-zone brine seepage, San Andres, Colombia: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, vol. 49, p. 209-214, 1978.
Links Anomaly and Coral Bleaching Hotspots fish Information Service for coral NMITA ZooxanthellateCorals Home Page Reefs UC Museum of paleontology Welcome wcmc http://www.terangi.or.id/links.htm
Paleozoic Paleobiology In addition, blastoids, bryozoans, corals, crinoids, as well as many kinds Remainsof Ostracoderms (jawless, armored fish) from Ordovician rocks comprise some http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Paleobiology/Paleozoic_paleobiology.htm
Extractions: The Paleozoic Era lasted from 544 to 245 million years ago, and is divided into six periods. These 300 million years of the Paleozoic era realized many critical events in evolution, including the development of most invertebrate groups, life's conquest of land, the evolution of fish, reptiles, insects, and vascular plants, the formation of the supercontinent of Pangea. Fish and fish-like vertebrates arose in the early Paleoozoic and comprise more than half of the diversity of vertebrates that inhabit the world today. Also importantly, there were also no less than two ice ages in the Paleozoic. Cambrian Period (544 to 505 mya) The name Cambrian derives from Cambria, the Roman name for Wales, where rocks of this age were first studied. Hard-shelled animals appeared in great numbers for the first time during the Cambrian, significantly because shallow seas flooded the continents. Gondwana formed near the South Pole. The Cambrian truly is an astonishing period in evolution of life on earth. Most major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record, an event popularly and scientifically called the "
Introduction To Cnidaria University of California, Berkeley presents an indepth look at these creatures, focusing on their ecology, history, fossils, and morphology. Introduction to Cnidaria. Jellyfish, corals, and other stingers. massive medusae and corals, feathery hydroids, and box which includes true corals, anemones, and sea pens; http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/cnidaria.html
Extractions: Jellyfish, corals, and other stingers. . . Cnidarians are incredibly diverse in form , as evidenced by colonial siphonophores , massive medusae and corals , feathery hydroids , and box jellies with complex eyes Yet, these diverse animals are united because they are all armed with stinging cells called nematocysts , most likely as a result of common history. The name Cnidaria comes from the Greek word "cnidos" , which means stinging nettle. Casually touching many cnidarians will make it clear how they got their name when their nematocysts eject barbed threads tipped with poison. Many thousands of cnidarian species live in the world's oceans, from the tropics to the poles, from the surface to the bottom. Some even burrow. A smaller number of species are found in rivers and fresh water lakes. There are four major groups of cnidarians Anthozoa , which includes true corals, anemones, and sea pens; Cubozoa , the amazing box jellies with complex eyes and potent toxins; Hydrozoa , the most diverse group with siphonophores, hydroids, fire corals, and many medusae; and Scyphozoa , the true jellyfish.
Extractions: at the Texas Memorial Museum Glossary Accessions This word is used by museum professionals to refer to new objects added to a museum's permanent collections, whether purchased, donated, or collected. The process of accessioning each group of newly acquired objects involves assigning it a unique registration number and recording information about what it consists of and how it was acquired. Age The age of a specimen can be stated in two ways. Relative age places the specimen in order with respect to other fossil specimens, rocks or geologic events, but does not provide an actual number or years. Absolute age is a measurement in years. Amethyst Purple quartz, Si0 Ammonoid Any cephalopod of the subclass Ammonoidea. The term includes ammonites, ceratites, and goniatites. Ammonites An ammonoid of the order Ammonitida, in which the suture pattern is complex (both the lobes and the saddles are intricately folded). They range in age from the Ordovician to the Cretaceous. Aragonite A orthorhombic form of calcium carbonate, CaCO
Extractions: The TMM New Publication Series was started to help keep track of TMM's published research, and to help build public understanding for the research and curatorial work done through the Texas Memorial Museum. This listing includes all peer-reviewed manuscripts resulting from research undertaken with the use of Museum specimens, equipment or other resources of TMM, or generally by TMM personnel. (Non peer-reviewed publications are included in the companion listing, " TMM New Contributions Series .") TMM New Series Publication Nos. allocated to date: Lucas, S.G. 1989. Coryphodon (Mammalia, Pantodonta) from the Hannold Hill Formation Eocene of Trans-Pecos Texas. Pearce-Sellards 46: 16 pp. Olson, E.C. 1989. The Arroyo Formation (Leonardian: Lower Permian) and its vertebrates. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 35: 25 pp. Peters, E.C., S.D. Cairns, M.E.Q. Pilson, J.W. Wells, W.C. Jaap, J.C. Lang, C.E. (Cummings) Vasleski, L. St. Pierre Gollahon. 1988. Nomenclature and Biology of Astrangia poculata (= A. danai = A. astreiformis) (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 101: 234-250.
