MorphodynamicsMorphodynamics is defined as the unique interaction among environment, functional morphology, developmental constraints, phylogeny, and time-all of which shape the evolution of life. These fabricational patterns and similarities owe their regularity not to a detailed genetic program, but to extrinsic factors, which may be mechanical, chemical, or b |
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Other Fabricational Morphospaces | 24 |
Branching and Intercalating Patterns | 38 |
Other Patterns | 52 |
Lifestyles and Functional Convergence | 67 |
Patterns of Evolution Versus CounterEvolution | 81 |
Taphonomy | 97 |
Gastropod Heteromorphy Or How to Get Out of the Spiral Syndrome | 256 |
Ammonites I Outer Shell and Jaws | 274 |
Ammonites II Septal Apparatus | 294 |
Ammonites III Taphonomy | 312 |
Straight Cephalopods | 330 |
Wormlike Organisms | 344 |
Trilobites | 359 |
Cirripeds Arthropods Become Sessile | 380 |
Protists | 118 |
Vendobionts Lost Life Forms of Ediacaran Times | 133 |
Porifera | 151 |
SoftBottom Actinians and Jellyfish | 167 |
SoftBottom Corals | 186 |
Brachiopods Bivalved Shells with a Difference | 201 |
Bivalves I Constructional and Morphogenetic Principles | 218 |
Bivalves II Evolutionary Ecology | 236 |
Echinoid Construction | 402 |
Crinoids | 429 |
Extinct Echinoderms Deviant Symmetries and Armored Tube Feet | 447 |
Clonal Colonies | 466 |
Glossary | 485 |
Illustration Sources | 489 |
Back Cover | 515 |
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ambulacral ammonite ammonoids animal aperture aragonitic attached ballast barnacles basal become belemnite benthic bivalves blastoids body chamber bottom brachiopods burrowing calcareous calcite Cambrian cephalopod Ceratites coiled colony construction contrast corals countdown Cretaceous crinoids Devonian divaricate echinoderms echinoids Ediacaran encrusters evolution evolutionary fabricational filtration folds function gastropod Geologie und Paläontologie Gishlick GPIT grow growth lines hinge Holzmaden intercalation Jahrbuch für Geologie Journal Jurassic Lagerstätten layer Lethaia ligament lower mantle margin mineralized mode mollusc MORPHODYNAMICS morphogenetic morphology morphospace Nautilus Neues Jahrbuch organisms ossicles outer oysters Paleontology Paleozoic passive implantation patterns pelagic Photo phragmocone Plate pneu polyps preserved probably radial recliners ribs rudists sand dollars secondary soft-bottom dwellers sediment Seilacher septa Shales shape shell side skeleton soft Solnhofen species specimens spines spiral sponges stereom structure substrate surface suture taphonomic theca tion trace fossils trilobite tube umbo upper valve vendobionts ventral wall whorl YPMIZ