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...

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 the Chinese trilobite kingdom with ease.

EDITORIAL PREFACE

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 of agnostoid genera (or subgenera) erected on Chinese material

 2.2 Occurrences

CHAPTER 3 Early Cambrian (Chiungchussuan, Tsanglangpuan and Lungwangmiaoan)                                   ,

 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 non-agnostoids

 7.1 List of polymerid 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 Silurian

 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

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