TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seilacher,Adolf
AU  - Gishlick,Alan D.
TI  - Morphodynamics 
SN  - 9781482221183 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  - 576.8 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Boca Raton :  
PB  - CRC Press, 
KW  - Morphology
KW  - Macroevolution
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : principles of morphodynamics --
1. Fabricational noise in body shapes --
2. Other fabricational morphospaces --
3. Bifurcating and intercalating patterns --
4. Other patterns --
5. Life styles --
6. Patterns of evolution versus counter evolution --
7. Taphonomy --
8. Protists --
9. Vendobionts : lost life forms of ediacaran times --
10. Sponges --
11. Soft-bottom actinians and jellyfish --
12. Soft-bottom corals --
13. Brachiopods : bivalved shells with a difference --
14. Bivalves I : constructional and morphogenetic principles --
15. Bivalves II : evolutionary ecology --
16. Gastropod heteromorphy : or how to get out of the spiral syndrome --
17. Ammonites I : outer shell and jaws --
18. Ammonites II : septal apparatus --
19. Ammonites III : taphonomy --
20. Straight cephalopods --
21. Worm-like organisms --
22. Trilobites --
23. Cirripeds : arthropods become sessile --
24. Echinoids --
25. Crinoids --
26. Extinct echinoderms : deviant symmetries and armored tube feet --
27. Clonal colonies--
Appendices--
Index
N2  - 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.
ER  -