Past Environments of Mexico

Past Environments of Mexico

Unveiling the Past Environments of a Megadiverse Country Through its Fossil Record

Jimenez-Hidalgo, Eduardo; Guerrero-Arenas, Rosalia

Springer International Publishing AG

04/2024

465

Dura

9783031510335

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction.- Microfossils as proxies: paleoecological and paleoceanographic indicators.- Cretaceous coral.- Mollusca: Bivalvia and Gastropoda.- Lophophorata.- Arthropoda as proxies of paleoenvironmental conditions.- The application of ichnology to palaeonvironmental reconstruction.- Gymnosperms through time. Their history in Mexico.- Importance of the angiosperm fossil record for the paleoenvironmental reconstruction.- Some palynological considerations in the environmental history.- Amphibians environmental dependence and their use in paleoecological reconstructions.- Reptiles as paleoenvironmental proxies and their association with the climate.- Mammals as paleoenvironmental proxies.- Vertebrate ichnofossils and paleoenvironments.- Invertebrate traces in soils and paleosols: a review on the classification, interpretation and paleobiological purpose.- Geochemical proxies.- Application of ichnofossils and microfossils in the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of turbidite sequences from the Chicontepec basin, central-eastern Mexico.- The Tlayua Quarry: an overview of a notable Early Cretaceous Fossil-Lagerstaette from Mexico.- The Cerro del Pueblo Formation, unlocking the environmental data of an extraordinary ancient ecosystem from Mexico.- Carbonate sequences from the Valles San Luis and Tuxpan Platforms (El Abra Formation, Cretaceous) and their paleoenvironmental significance in a sector of the Sierra Madre Oriental in the subsoil of the coastal plain of the Gulf of Mexico.- Pollen database as a tool for paleoclimate interpretation: the case of the Trans-Mexican.
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Paleoenvironments;Tropical and Subtropical North America;Fossil Applications;Mexican Paleoenvironments;Paleoenvironmental Analysis