Great ordovician biodiversification event, the
Éditeur :
Columbia University Press
ISBN :
9780231126786
Date de publication :
14 avr. 2004
Dimensions :
27,9 x 21,6 cm
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Focuses on the 46-million-year Ordovician Period (489-443 my), when a bewildering array of adaptive radiations of Paleozoic and Modern-type biotas appeared in marine habitats, the first animals (arthropods) walked on land, and the first non-vascular bryophyte-like plants colonized terrestrial areas with damp environments.