Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9787030221759
Published on: 2009-01
Hardcover
This volume deals with 1677 trilobite genera that occur in the Palaeozoic rocks of China, and, after a critical revision, 1317 of them are considered as valid. All the valid forms are listed with reference to their familial assignments, and chronostratigraphical, geographical and geological settings. Based on the updated data of their temporal and spatial distribution, the Cambrian and Ordovician biogeography of China is reviewed. Furthermore, the familial and generic biodiversity changes through the 46 Palaeozoic stages and 71 Cambro-Ordovician time intervals （defined by biozones） in China are depicted, and the fundamental trends in the history of trilobite diversification and macroevolution through the Palaeozoic of China are revealed. The book provides the most complete and consistent data set available for trilobite records in China, and will interest all those of the palaeontologists, geologists and biologists who wish to roam about theChinese trilobite kingdom with ease.
Chapter 1 Introduction with reference to previous work, stratigraphical and geological settings, and biogeography
1.1 Trilobite research in China: a historical review
1.2 Notes on the chronostratigraphy of trilobite-bearing beds
1.3 Division of geographical units
1.4 Outline of Cambrian and Ordovician trilobite biogeography
Chapter 2 Cambrian agnostoids
2.1 List ofagnostoid genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
2.2 Occurrences
Chapter 3 Early Cambrian (Chiungchussuan, Tsanglangpuan and Lungwangmia)
3.1 A brief stratigraphic review
3.2 List of genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
3.3 Occurrences
Chapter 4 Non-agnostoids of the early Mid Cambrian (Maochuangian and Hsuchuangian)
4.1 Zonation and correlation
4.2 List of genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
4.3 Occurrences
Chapter 5 Non-agnostoids of Changhian (late Mid Cambrian)
5.1 Zonation and correlation
5.2 List of genera (or subgenera) erected based on Chinese material
5.3 Occurrences
Chapter 6 Platform-facies non-agnostoids of Late Cambrian (Kushanian,Changshanian and Fengshanian)
6.1 List of genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
6.2 Occurrences
Chapter 7 Cambrian (late Taijiangian-Taoyuanian) slope-facies noti-agnostoids
7.1 List ofpolymerid genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
7.2 Occurrences
Chapter 8 Latest Cambrian and Ordovician
8.1 Notes on the stratigraphic framework
8.2 List of genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
8.3 Age and occurrences
Chapter 9 Shurian
9.1 List of genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
9.2 Occurrences
Chapter 10 Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian
10.1 List of genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material
10.2 Occurences
Chapter 11 History of trilobite biodiversity: a Chinese perspective
11.1 Data and analytical methods
11.2 Origin
11.3 Diversity
11.4 Radiation events
11.5 Extinction events
11.6 Conclusions
