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Overview
Illustrated by numerous examples from across the biological spectrum, this book embodies the foundation of noted paleontologist Adolf Seilacher’s thinking on the study of morphodynamics. It represents his unique approach of presenting paleontology from an ecological and constructional perspective, rather than a purely taxonomic one.
The hallmark of Seilacher’s storied career has been a constructional and functional focus. He begins by discussing the basic principles—form, pattern formation, ecology and evolution, as well as the factors that override those processes. Next, he examines how morphodynamic principles are implemented in various invertebrates including single-celled protists, Ediacarans, sponges, coelenterates, shelled organisms, worms, arthropods, and echinoderms.
The final chapter explores how morphogenetic principles may apply to clonal colonial organisms. Summarizing seventy years of research into the interactions of form, function, and evolution, the book is copiously illustrated with the author’s own distinctive drawings and an abundance of photos. It provides a framework for readers to pose their own questions and sharpen their interpretive skills on this fascinating topic.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780367658960 |
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| Publisher: | CRC Press |
| Publication date: | 03/30/2021 |
| Pages: | 551 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Alan D. Gishlick first met Adolf Seilacher in 1995 as a graduate student at Yale University after completing his undergraduate degree at Augustana College in Illinois. He became interested in Seilacher’s iconoclastic thinking as well as his unique presentation and illustration. Dr. Gishlick has worked for the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California defending the teaching of evolution in public schools and working to improve the public understanding of science. Subsequently, he has taught at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota; University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; New York Institute of Technology; and Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He started working with Seilacher on the Morphodynamics project in 2009 and, like many others over the years, got "Dolf’d".
Table of Contents
A Note from Adolf Seilacher xi
A Note from Alan D. Gishlick xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Foreword Derek Briggs xvii
Preface xix
Introduction: Principles of Morphodynamics 1
Chapter 1 Fabricational Noise in Body Shapes 10
1.1 The Concept of Morphodynamics 12
1.2 Coiled Cone Morphospace: Simulations 14
1.3 Morphogenetic Countdowns 16
1.4 Deformation of the Generating Curve 18
1.5 Morphologies Induced by Mobile Partners 20
Chapter 2 Other Fabricational Morphospaces 24
2.1 Frilled Margins 26
2.2 Expanding Balloons 28
2.3 Tiled Balloons 30
2.4 Lace Structures 32
2.5 Remote Mineralization 34
Chapter 3 Bifurcating and Intercalating Patterns 38
3.1 Dendritic Patterns 40
3.2 Leaf Venations 42
3.3 Insect Wing Patterns 44
3.4 Intercalational Hierarchy and Enslavement 46
3.5 Pattern Repair 48
Chapter 4 Other Patterns 52
4.1 Mineralized Fold Patterns 54
4.2 Zebra Patterns 56
4.3 Divaricate Patterns in Bivalves 58
4.4 Divaricate Burrowing Ribs I 60
4.5 Divaricate Burrowing Ribs II 62
Chapter 5 Lifestyles 67
5.1 Ecologie Guilds of Marine Invertebrates 70
5.2 Paleozoic Soft-bottom Brachiopods 74
5.3 Patellaemorphs 76
5.4 Horn-shaped Passive Implanters and Rolling Harvesters 78
Chapter 6 Patterns of Evolution Versus Counter Evolution 81
6.1 The Cambrian Ecologic Revolution and Golden Ages 84
6.2 Golden Ages II and III 86
6.3 Golden Biotope: Deep Sea 88
6.4 Golden Nailbed: Beach Sand I 90
6.5 Beach Sand II 92
Chapter 7 Taphonomy 97
7.1 Taphonomic Concept and Burial Processes 100
7.2 Shell Stratinomy 102
7.3 Postmortem Deformations 104
7.4 Diagenetic Overprints 106
7.5 Storm Taphonomy 110
7.6 Selective Preservation in Jurassic Lagerstätten 112
Chapter 8 Protists 118
8.1 Flagellate Brick Making 120
8.2 Siliceous Lace Capsules I 122
8.3 Siliceous Lace Capsules II: Radiolaria 124
8.4 Scaling in Larger Foraminifera 126
8.5 Xenophyophora 128
Chapter 9 Vendobionts: Lost Life Forms of Ediacaran Times 133
9.1 Vendobiont Disparity 136
9.2 Vendobiont Construction 138
9.3 Overmat Community, Mistaken Point 140
9.4 Ediacaran Snapshots 142
9.5 Vendobionta Underground 144
Chapter 10 Sponges 151
10.1 Sand Sponges 152
10.2 Silurian Soft-bottom Sponges 154
10.3 Chemung Sponges 156
10.4 Chambered Sponges 158
10.5 Soft-bottom Strategies 160
10.6 Sponge Symbioses and Clionid Borers 162
Chapter 11 Soft-Bottom Actinians and Jellyfish 167
11.1 Soft-Polyp Lifestyles 170
11.2 Psammocorallia I 172
11.3 Psammocorallia II 174
11.4 Fossil Jellyfish 176
11.5 Conulariids 178
Chapter 12 Soft-Bottom Corals 186
12.1 Secondary Soft-bottom Dwellers I 188
12.2 Secondary Soft-bottom Dwellers II 190
12.3 Scleractinia I 192
12.4 Scleractinia II 194
12.5 Non-sexual Proliferation 196
Chapter 13 Brachiopods: Bivalved Shells with a Difference 201
13.1 Recliners, Sediment Stickers and Rock Dwellers 204
13.2 Passive Implanters 206
13.3 Life Positions recorded by Epizoans 208
13.4 Productids 210
13.5 Bizarre Permian Brachiopods 212
Chapter 14 Bivalves I: Constructional and Morphogenetic Principles 218
14.1 Energy Storing Ligaments 220
14.2 Consequences of Marginal Pneu Growth 222
14.3 Growth-conformable Sculptures 224
14.4 Pholad Boring 226
14.5 Tube Bivalves 228
14.6 Chemosymbiosis and Photosymbiosis 230
Chapter 15 Bivalves II: Evolutionary Ecology 236
15.1 Adaptational Pathways 240
15.2 Mytiloida Radiation 242
15.3 Anotniid Recliners 244
15.4 Soft-bottom Pernamorphs 246
15.5 Soft-bottom Oysters 248
15.6 Rudists 250
Chapter 16 Gastropod Heteromorphy: or How to Get Out of the Spiral Syndrome 256
16.1 Derailed Coiling 258
16.2 Muricid Varices: Iterative Countdowns 260
16.3 Strombids: Terminal Countdowns 262
16.4 Ballast Shells 264
16.5 Opercula 266
16.6 Kimberella: Earliest Mollusc? 268
Chapter 17 Ammonites I: Outer Shell and Jaws How Valid is the Nautilus Model? 274
17.1 Rib Patterns 276
17.2 Shell Geometry and Streamlining 278
17.3 Aberrant Growth Patterns 280
17.4 Epizoans: Clues to Host Biology 282
17.5 Aptychi Jaw Transformation 284
17.6 Siphuncular Necks 288
Chapter 18 Ammonites II: Septal Apparatus 294
18.1 Septal Surfaces 296
18.2 Suture Lines 298
18.3 Lobe Size: Whorl Selection and Coiling 300
18.4 Placenticeras 302
18.5 Sutural Replication 304
18.6 Ceratitization in Epicontinental Seas 306
Chapter 19 Ammonites III: Taphonomy 312
19.1 Pseudo-bites in Placenticeras 314
19.2 Fragmentation by Predators 316
19.3 Fouling in Posidonia Shales 318
19.4 Bottom Transport and Accumulation 320
19.5 Diagenetic Flattening 322
19.6 Taphonomic Case Histories in Muschelkalk Ceratites 324
Chapter 20 Straight Cephalopods 330
20.1 Belemnite Rostra 332
20.2 Conellate Structures 334
20.3 Belemnite Taphonomy 336
20.4 Balancing Strategies and Apertural Margins 340
Chapter 21 Worm-Like Organisms 344
21.1 Pelagic Hitchhikers and Spaghettiform Colonies 346
21.2 Gordian Anchors and iterative Countdowns 348
21.3 Climbers and Horn-Shaped Recliners 350
21.4 Rotularia: Countdown Programs for Resurrection 352
21.5 Machaeridia: Scaly Monsterns 354
Chapter 22 Trilobites 359
22.1 Horned Trilobites and Sieve Brims 362
22.2 Terrace Lines 364
22.3 Ornamentation and Pattern Repair 366
22.4 Trilobite Burrows 368
22.5 Sensory Organs I 370
22.6 Sensory Organs II: Trilobite Eyes 374
Chapter 23 Cirripeds: Arthropods Become Sessile 380
23.1 Acrothoracica: Borings as Tools in Paleontology 382
23.2 Lepadomorpha: Halfway to Bivalvedness 384
23.3 Balanomorpha: The Ruling Cirripeds 388
23.4 Whale Barnacles 390
23.5 Turtle Barnacles I 394
23.6 Turtle Barnacles II 396
Chapter 24 Echinoids 402
24.1 Echinoid Skeletons 408
24.2 Echinoid Pneu Shapes 410
24.3 Pneu Design and Modification 414
24.4 Spines of Epibenthic Echinoids 418
24.5 Sand Dollars I: Food Transport 420
24.6 Sand Dollars II: Evolutionary History 424
Chapter 25 Crinoids 429
25.1 Ecology of Pelagic Crinoids 432
25.2 Pelagic Crinoids in Bituminous Shales 434
25.3 Ecology of Pelagic Crinoids II 438
25.4 PelagicCrinoids in Platy Limestones 440
25.5 Soft-bottom Anchorage 442
Chapter 26 Extinct Echinoderms: Deviant Symmetries and Armorred Tube Feet 447
26.1 Helicoplacoids: Playing at Peristaltic Worms 450
26.2 Ophiocistioids 452
26.3 Edrioasteroids and Cyclocystoids 454
26.4 Blastoid Morphology and Construction 456
26.5 Blastoid Variation 460
26.6 Respiration in Brachiolate Forms 462
Chapter 27 Clonal Colonies 466
27.1 Bryozoan Colonies I 470
27.2 Bryozoan Colonies II 472
27.3 Soft-bottom Favositid Colonies I 474
27.4 Soft-bottom Favositid Colonies II 476
27.5 Graptolites as Cartesian Mobiles 478
Appendix I Glossary 485
Appendix II Illustration Sources Copeland MacClintock Jessica Utrup 489
Index 515