Evolutionary stasis and change in the Dominican Republic neogene

The richly fossiliferous Neogene stratigraphic sections of the Dominican Republic serve as one of only a few geological research systems in the world wheremorphological stasis and punctuated speciation have been investigated in multiple lineages. This research system provides unprecedented opportunities for comparative studies of evolutionary stasis and change and their environmental and ecological contexts. In this volume, a diverse group of geologists and paleobiologists collectively focus their attention on this research system, providing an updated geological framework and a series of novel studies of evolutionary stasis and change among different lineages and associated ecological communities. This collection of studies illustrates the immense potential of collaborative, multidisciplinary, and field-based paleobiological research for studies of macroevolutionary change in the fossil record. Features comparative studies of evolutionary change in the same well-studied geological context INDICE: From the contents 1. Palaeobiological Research in the Cibao Valleyof the Northern Dominican Republic; 2. An Overview of the Regional Geology and Stratigraphy of the Neogene Deposits of the Cibao Valley, Dominican Republic; 3. Constraints on Late Miocene Shallow Marine Seasonality for the Central Caribbean using Oxygen Isotope and Sr/Ca Ratios in a Fossil Coral; 4. Assessing the Effects of Taphonomic Processes on Palaeobiological Patterns using Turbinid Gastropod Shells and Opercula; 5. Early evolution of the Montastraea ‘annularis’ species complex (Anthozoa: Scleractinia): Evidence from the Mio-Pliocene of the Dominican Republic; 6. Evolutionary Patterns within the Reef Coral Siderastrea in the Mio-Pliocene of the Dominican Republic; 7. Neogene Evolution ofthe Reef Coral Species Complex Montastraea ‘Cavernosa’; 8. The Dynamics of Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the ‘Prunum maoense Group’; 9. Assessing Community Change in Miocene to Pliocene Coral Assemblages of the Northern DominicanRepublic.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-8214-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés