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EVOLUTIONARY AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF TRILOBITES DURING THE END ORDOVICIAN MASS EXTINCTION EVENT
dc.contributor.advisor | Lieberman, Bruce S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Congreve, Curtis Raymond | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-08T22:33:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-05-08T22:33:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-01-01 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10025 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4540 | |
dc.description.abstract | The end Ordovician mass extinction event is believed to have been caused by a geologically brief, sudden onset glacial period that interrupted a period of extreme greenhouse conditions. The cause of this icehouse is a matter of contention, but recent a recent work proposes that a nearby gamma-ray burst could have affected the Earth's atmospheric chemistry and pushed the climate from a greenhouse into an unstable icehouse. Survivorship patterns of trilobites and their larval forms appear to agree with this theory. In order to further explore the Ordovician extinction, I conducted three individual paleontological studies to test macroevolutionary and biogeographic patterns of trilobites across the extinction. The first study is a phylogenic and biogeographic analysis of the family Homalonotidae Chapman 1890, the second is a similar analysis of the subfamily Deiphoninae Reed 1913, and the third is a GIS study of species ranges of the subfamily Deiphoninae. | |
dc.format.extent | 84 pages | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Paleontology | |
dc.subject | Geology | |
dc.subject | Biogeography | |
dc.subject | Deiphoninae | |
dc.subject | Homalonotidae | |
dc.subject | Mass extinctions | |
dc.subject | Ordovician period | |
dc.subject | Trilobites | |
dc.title | EVOLUTIONARY AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF TRILOBITES DURING THE END ORDOVICIAN MASS EXTINCTION EVENT | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Fowle, David A. | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Wiley, Edward O. | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Geology | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | M.S. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
kusw.bibid | 6857498 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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