Bryozoa are a colonial animal phylum with a long evolutionary history, having existed from the early Ordovician (480 My) onward and still flourishing today. Several mass extinctions in earth history shaped and triggered bryozoan evolution through drastic turnover of faunas and new evolutionary lineages. Bryozoa are widespread across all latitudes from Equator to Polar Regions and occur in marine and freshwater environments. They are shaping benthic ecosystems and recording ambient environmental conditions in their skeletons. The book provides a synthesis of the current main topics of research in the field of Bryozoology including combined research on both extant, and extinct taxa. Fields or current research span molecular genetics and phylogeny, life history, reproduction and anatomy, biodiversity and evolutionary patterns in time and space, taxonomy, zoogeography, ecology, sediment interactions, and climate response.
Author(s): Franziska Bitschofsky (auth.), Andrej Ernst, Priska Schäfer, Joachim Scholz (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences 143
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 442
Tags: Paleontology; Biogeosciences; Geoecology/Natural Processes
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Distribution over Space and Time in Epizoobiontic North Sea Bryozoans....Pages 1-12
The World’s Oldest-Known Bryozoan Reefs: Late Tremadocian, mid-Early Ordovician; Yichang, Central China....Pages 13-27
Molecular Distance and Morphological Divergence in Cauloramphus (Cheilostomata: Calloporidae)....Pages 29-44
Acanthoclema (Rhabdomesina, Cryptostomata) from the Devonian of Europe....Pages 45-58
Growth Rates, Age Determination, and Calcification Levels in Flustra foliacea (L.) (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata): Preliminary Assessment....Pages 59-74
Life on the Edge: Parachnoidea (Ctenostomata) and Barentsia (Kamptozoa) on Bathymodiolin Mussels from an Active Submarine Volcano in the Kermadec Volcanic Arc....Pages 75-89
Occurrence and Identity of “White Spots” in Phylactolaemata....Pages 91-103
Testing Habitat Complexity as a Control over Bryozoan Colonial Growth Form and Species Distribution....Pages 105-119
Distribution and Diversity of Erect Bryozoan Assemblages Along the Pacific Coast of Japan....Pages 121-136
Epizoic Bryozoans on Predatory Pycnogonids from the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica: “If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them”....Pages 137-153
Growth Rate of Selected Sheet-Encrusting Bryozoan Colonies Along a Latitudinal Transect: Preliminary Results....Pages 155-167
Patterns of Magnesium-Calcite Distribution in the Skeleton of Some Polar Bryozoan Species....Pages 169-185
Seagrass-Associated Bryozoan Communities from the Late Pliocene of the Island of Rhodes (Greece)....Pages 187-201
A New Species of the Genus Electra (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from Southern Oman, Arabian Sea....Pages 203-216
Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis Confirms the Species Status of Electra verticillata (Ellis and Solander, 1786)....Pages 217-236
Large Sediment Encrusting Trepostome Bryozoans from the Permian of Tasmania, Australia....Pages 237-249
Bryozoan Communities and Thanatocoenoses from Submarine Caves in the Plemmirio Marine Protected Area (SE Sicily)....Pages 251-269
The Genus Sparsiporina d’Orbigny, 1852 (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata): Late Eocene to Holocene....Pages 271-287
Species of Alcyonidium (Ctenostomatida) from the Pacific Coast of North America: A Preliminary Account....Pages 289-302
Distribution and Zoogeography of Cheilostomate Bryozoa Along the Pacific Coast of Panama: Comparison Between the Gulf of Panama and Gulf of Chiriquí....Pages 303-319
High Resolution Non-destructive Imaging Techniques for Internal Fine Structure of Bryozoan Skeletons....Pages 321-326
Being a Bimineralic Bryozoan in an Acidifying Ocean....Pages 327-337
Hornera striata (Milne Edwards, 1838), a British Pliocene Cyclostome Bryozoan Incorrectly Recorded from New Zealand, with Notes on Some Non-fenestrate Hornera from the Coralline Crag....Pages 339-356
Schizomavella grandiporosa and Schizomavella sarniensis : Two Cryptic Species....Pages 357-365
A Diverse Bryozoan Fauna from Pleistocene Marine Gravels at Kuromatsunai, Hokkaido, Japan....Pages 367-383
Early Carboniferous Bryozoans from Western Siberia, Russia....Pages 385-399
The Use of Early Miocene Bryozoan Faunal Affinities in the Central Paratethys for Inferring Climatic Change and Seaway Connections....Pages 401-418
Palaeoecology, Preservation and Taxonomy of Encrusting Ctenostome Bryozoans Inhabiting Ammonite Body Chambers in the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale of Wyoming and South Dakota, USA....Pages 419-433
Krka River (Croatia): Case Study of Bryozoan Settlement from Source to Estuary....Pages 435-448
Back Matter....Pages 449-463
