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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jörg Maletz (Freie Universitat Berlin) , Jan ZalasiewiczPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Dimensions: Width: 19.10cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 0.794kg ISBN: 9781118515723ISBN 10: 1118515722 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 05 May 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii Preface viii Acknowledgments x 1 Graptolites: An Introduction 1 Jan Zalasiewicz and Jörg Maletz 2 Biological Affinities 15 Jörg Maletz 3 Construction of Graptolite Tubaria 31 Jörg Maletz, Alfred C. Lenz and Denis E. B. Bates 4 Paleoecology of the Pterobranchia 50 Jörg Maletz and Denis E. B. Bates 5 Graptolites as Rock Components 76 Jörg Maletz 6 Graptolites and Stratigraphy 94 Jörg Maletz 7 Taxonomy and Evolution 111 Jörg Maletz 8 Bound to the Sea Floor: The Benthic Graptolites 124 Jörg Maletz 9 The Planktic Revolution 139 Jörg Maletz 10 Early Ordovician Diversity Burst 153 Jörg Maletz and Yuandong Zhang 11 The Biserial Graptolites 181 Jörg Maletz 12 The Retiolitid Graptolites 207 Jörg Maletz, Denis E. B. Bates, Anna Koz³owska and Alfred C. Lenz 13 The Monograptids 221 Jörg Maletz 14 Collection, Preparation and Illustration of Graptolites 244 Denis E. B. Bates and Jörg Maletz 15 History of Graptolite Research 254 Jörg Maletz References 270 Index 311ReviewsGraptolites might have lost some of their utilitarian appeal even to Palaeozoic biostratigraphers but they have gained in palaeobiological interest over the last few decades. Graptolite Paleobiology marks a useful point in graptolite studies when it is appropriate to take stock of what has been achieved. Arguably the last time this happened was in 1955 when Bulman wrote the first edition of the graptolite volume of the Treatise. Maletz and contributors are to be congratulated on pulling together such a considerable body of research, stretching back nearly 300 years, and for producing such a beautifully illustrated and informative book, which deserves a place in every geological library. It was 1735 when Linnaeus first noticed this somewhat enigmatic group of fossils. He coined the name Graptolithus, derived from the Greek via modern Latin and meaning 'written rock', although he thought that they were the fossil remains of plants. Maletz reviews the progress that has been made, especially since the early decades of the 19th Century. At that time, graptolite studies were broadly divided between a European academic tradition with a biological approach to the fossils (especially in Sweden and subsequently Poland), whereas in Britain the approach was more utilitarian and biostratigraphical. Although there was of course a more general international interest in the taxonomy and evolution of the graptolites, this progressed quite independently of any need to understand their biological affinities. Conodont research had a similar history of development. Only in the mid-20th Century did palaeobiological and biostratigraphical approaches begin to merge. As with that other group of enigmatic marine Palaeozoic fossils (conodonts), the underlying biological problem with graptolites was the zoological identity of the graptolite organism. Although microscope studies of chemically isolated specimens by Swedish palaeontologists had already presented clues as to the graptolites' pterobranch affinity, it took another 70 years before the new technologies of scanning and transmission electron microscopy revealed the true connection. Despite a diminishing number of researchers, great progress has been made across the whole range of graptolite studies in recent decades. Palaeobiology cannot stand alone without support from taxonomic and evolutionary research. As Maletz shows so clearly, all have benefited from the ability to examine chemically isolated specimens by electron microscopy both SEM and TEM. Crowther's 'breakthrough' recognition in the late 1970s of the nature and origin of cortical 'bandages' in the structure of the graptolite stipe led the way. Much of the graptolite research literature is notoriously scattered and often hard to access but Graptolite Paleobiology provides an excellent digest and is essential reading for all advanced students. (Reviewed by Douglas Palmer) Maletz and contributors are to be congratulated on pulling together such a considerable body of research... a beautifully illustrated and informative book. (Geoscientist, March 2018) Graptolites might have lost some of their utilitarian appeal even to Palaeozoic biostratigraphers but they have gained in palaeobiological interest over the last few decades. Graptolite Paleobiology marks a useful point in graptolite studies when it is appropriate to take stock of what has been achieved. Arguably the last time this happened was in 1955 when Bulman wrote the first edition of the graptolite volume of the Treatise. Maletz and contributors are to be congratulated on pulling together such a considerable body of research, stretching back nearly 300 years, and for producing such a beautifully illustrated and informative book, which deserves a place in every geological library. It was 1735 when Linnaeus first noticed this somewhat enigmatic group of fossils. He coined the name Graptolithus, derived from the Greek via modern Latin and meaning 'written rock', although he thought that they were the fossil remains of plants. Maletz reviews the progress that has been made, especially since the early decades of the 19th Century. At that time, graptolite studies were broadly divided between a European academic tradition with a biological approach to the fossils (especially in Sweden and subsequently Poland), whereas in Britain the approach was more utilitarian and biostratigraphical. Although there was of course a more general international interest in the taxonomy and evolution of the graptolites, this progressed quite independently of any need to understand their biological affinities. Conodont research had a similar history of development. Only in the mid-20th Century did palaeobiological and biostratigraphical approaches begin to merge. As with that other group of enigmatic marine Palaeozoic fossils (conodonts), the underlying biological problem with graptolites was the zoological identity of the graptolite organism. Although microscope studies of chemically isolated specimens by Swedish palaeontologists had already presented clues as to the graptolites' pterobranch affinity, it took another 70 years before the new technologies of scanning and transmission electron microscopy revealed the true connection. Despite a diminishing number of researchers, great progress has been made across the whole range of graptolite studies in recent decades. Palaeobiology cannot stand alone without support from taxonomic and evolutionary research. As Maletz shows so clearly, all have benefited from the ability to examine chemically isolated specimens by electron microscopy both SEM and TEM. Crowther's 'breakthrough' recognition in the late 1970s of the nature and origin of cortical 'bandages' in the structure of the graptolite stipe led the way. Much of the graptolite research literature is notoriously scattered and often hard to access but Graptolite Paleobiology provides an excellent digest and is essential reading for all advanced students. (Reviewed by Douglas Palmer) Maletz and contributors are to be congratulated on pulling together such a considerable body of research... a beautifully illustrated and informative book. (Geoscientist, March 2018) Author InformationJörg Maletz is a researcher based at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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