Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Taphonomy as an Indicator of Behavior Among Fossil Crinoids
Book Title
Echinoderm paleobiology
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
9780253351289
Publication Date
2008
Editors
Ausich, William I., and G. D. Webster
Keywords
Echinodermata, Fossils
Description
The dominant faunal elements in shallow Paleozoic oceans, echinoderms are important to understanding these marine ecosystems. Echinoderms (which include such animals as sea stars, crinoids or sea lilies, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers) have left a rich and, for science, extremely useful fossil record. For various reasons, they provide the ideal source for answers to the questions that will help us develop a more complete understanding of global environmental and biodiversity changes. This volume highlights the modern study of fossil echinoderms and is organized into five parts: echinoderm paleoecology, functional morphology, and paleoecology; evolutionary paleoecology; morphology for refined phylogenetic studies; innovative applications of data encoded in echinoderms; and information on new crinoid data sets.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
City
Bloomington
Disciplines
Marine Biology
NSUWorks Citation
Baumiller, Tomasz K.; Forest J. Gahn; Hans Hess; and Charles Messing. (2008). Taphonomy as an Indicator of Behavior Among Fossil Crinoids. In Ausich, William I., and G. D. Webster (Eds.), Echinoderm paleobiology .