Evolutionary biology of Ostracoda : its fundamentals and applications : proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Ostracoda, held in Shizuoka, Japan, 29 July-2 August 1985

There are many competitive works on the market concerning evolutionary biology, but this volume is quite distinctive in its idiographic aspect focusing on Ostracoda viewed from a wide range of disciplines, ages and environments. The book deals with various lines of idiographic biology and palaeontology of Ostracoda and nomothetic trials focusing strongly on evolutionary biology. Particular themes are morphology, biology, evolution, speciation, ecology, palaeoecology, deep sea fauna, biogeography, palaeobiogeography, biostratigraphy and exploration, all concerning Ostracoda. The last decade has witnessed a spectacular renewal of interest in the study of Otracoda, particularly in the evolutionary biology of Ostracoda, including speciation. Ostracoda are unique, ranging in age from the Cambrian period to modern times with carapaces ready to be preserved as fossils, providing various lines of invaluable evidence regarding evolutionary processes. More than 120 participants from 20 countries assembled at the Ninth International Symposium on Ostracoda and this book is a collection of all the papers presented at the Symposium, plus selected papers submitted by non-attending members. It presents an outstanding record of much pioneering research and will be of interest to specalists in Ostracoda as well as all earth and life scientists concerned with evolution. Its value is further enhanced by easy-to-use indexes of authors, localities and taxa.--[Source inconnue] Content: Edited by Page iii Copyright page Page iv Preface Pages xi-xii Tetsuro Hanai List of Contributors Pages xiii-xiv Participants Pages xv-xvi Ostracoda—A Historical Perspective Original Research Article Pages 3-15 John W. Neale A Taxonomist's View on Classification Original Research Article Pages 17-26 Tetsuro Hanai A Recent Dutch Microorganism (A. J. Keij), with the Description of Jankeijcythere New Genus (Crustacea, Ostracoda) Original Research Article Pages 29-37 Kenneth G. Mckenzie The North American Genus Climacoidea Puri, 1956, and the Tribe Campylocytherini (Neogene and Quaternary) Original Research Article Pages 39-56 Joseph E. Hazel, Thomas M. Cronin Morphological Affinities in Ostracoda, Misleading and Revealing Original Research Article Pages 57-62 Heinz Malz Recent Ornate Bairdiid Ostracoda: Origin and Distribution Original Research Article Pages 63-74 Heinz Malz, Alan Lord The Bairdia Dynasty Review-Activities-Aspects Original Research Article Pages 75-80 Heinz Malz Some Problems Associated with the Genus Uroleberis Original Research Article Pages 81-92 John W. Neale, Pratap Singh Tertiary and Recent Species of Miocyprideis from India Original Research Article Pages 93-103 Subhash C. Khosla The Genus Stigmatocythere from the Quilon Beds (Lower Miocene) of Kerala, India Original Research Article Pages 105-120 Subhash C. Khosla, M.L. Nagori On Ostracod Biofacies and Five New Genera in Korean Seas Original Research Article Pages 121-133 Kae-Lim Choe On the Recent Aurila Species from Japan Original Research Article Pages 135-144 Ichiro Okubo Function and Significance of Tubules: Tubulibairdia vs. Microcheilinella Original Research Article Pages 145-157 Robert F. Lundin The Free Margin Contact Structures in Some “Palaeocopid” Ostracods and their Bearing on Classification Original Research Article Pages 159-174 Mendel N. Gramm The Origin of the “Xestoleberis -Spot” Original Research Article Pages 177-186 Dietmar Keyser Geometrical Optics of Some Ostracod Eyes Original Research Article Pages 187-193 John H. Myers, Mervin Kontrovitz The Concept of Cyclicity of Morphogenesis Original Research Article Pages 195-205 E.I. Schornikov Ontogeny of Bradleya normani (Brady): Shape Analysis of Landmarks Original Research Article Pages 207-218 Roger L. Kaesler, David W. Foster Multivariate Analysis of Leg Morphology of Macrocyprididae Original Research Article Pages 219-234 Rosalie F. Maddocks A Preliminary Study on Ornamentation and Ultrastructure of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Ostracoda in China Original Research Article Pages 235-242 You-Tang Hou, Yu-Hong Zhao Ultrastructure of Myodocopid Shells (Ostracoda) Original Research Article Pages 243-258 I.G. Sohn, Louis S. Kornicker Carapace Sculpture in Amphissites (Kirkbyacea: Ostracoda) Original Research Article Pages 259-273 Peter J. Jones Evolution of Amphicostella from the Middle Devonian in Europe (Metacopa, Ostracoda) Original Research Article Pages 275-289 Franciszek J. Adamczak Cytogenetic Studies on Marine Myodocopid Ostracoda: the karyotypes of Gigantocypris dracontovalis Cannon, 1940 and Macrocypridina castanea (Brady, 1897) Original Research Article Pages 293-300 Alicia Moguilevsky, Robin C. Whatley Morphological and Ethological Adaptations of Ostracoda to Microhabitats in Zostera Beds Original Research Article Pages 303-318 Takahiro Kamiya Morphological Variations of Cytheromorpha acupunctata (Brady) in Continuous Populations at Hamana-ko Bay, Japan Original Research Article Pages 319-340 Noriyuki Ikeya, Hitoshi Ueda The Ostracod Carapace as a Hydrochemical Source of Information at Water/Sediment Interface Original Research Article Pages 341-351 P. Carbonel, M. Tölderer-Farmer The Impact of Organic Matter on Ostracods from an Equatorial Deltaic Area, the Mahakam Delta-Southeastern Kalimantan Original Research Article Pages 353-366 P. Carbonel, T. Hoibian Variation of Pistocythereis and Keijella Species in Gamagyang Bay, South Coast of Korea Original Research Article Pages 367-373 Katsumi Abe, Kae-Lim Choe To See and Not to Be Seen: The Evolutionary Problems of the Ostracoda Xestoleberididae Original Research Article Pages 375-398 Gioacchino Bonaduce, Dan. L. Danielopol A Preliminary Account of the Distribution of Ostracoda in Recent Reef and Reef Associated Environments in the Pulau Seribu or Thousand Island Group, Java Sea Original Research Article Pages 399-411 Robin C. Whatley, Karen Watson Distribution of Recent Ostracoda in Ise and Mikawa Bays, Pacific Coast of Central Japan Original Research Article Pages 413-428 Anne-Marie Bodergat, Noriyuki Ikeya Preliminary Study on the Ecology of Ostracods from the Moat of a Coral Reef off Sesoko Island, Okinawa, Japan Original Research Article Pages 429-437 Ryoichi Tabuki, Tomohide Nohara Podocopid Ostracods of Brisbane Water, Near Sydney, South-Eastern Australia Original Research Article Pages 439-448 Christopher Bentley Remarks on the Benthic Ostracoda on the Tunisian Shelf Original Research Article Pages 449-466 Gloacchino Bonaduce, Mario Masoli, Nevio Pugliese Relationships Between Ecological Models Based on Ostracods and Foraminifers from Sepetiba Bay (Rio de Janeiro-Brazil) Original Research Article Pages 467-484 Dimas Dias-Brito, Joel A. Moura, Norma Würdig In Search of Cypris and Cythere —A Report of the Evolutionary Ecological Project on Linmic Ostracoda from the Mondsee (Austria) Original Research Article Pages 485-500 Dan L. Danielopol, Walter Geiger, Martine Töui-Derbr-Farmer, Carmen P. Orellana, Marie-Noelle Terrat Living Ostracods from the Nature Reserve “HöUrdter Rheinaue” (Germany) Original Research Article Pages 501-517 Burkhard W. Scharf Distribution of the Brackish-Salt Water Ostracods in Northwestern Qinghai Plateau and Its Geological Significance Original Research Article Pages 519-530 Fan Yang The Iperk Sequence (Plio-Pleistocene) and its Ostracod Assemblages in the Eastern Beaufort Sea Original Research Article Pages 533-540 Qadeer A. Siddiqui Plio-Pleistocene Ostracods from the Sogwipo Formation, Cheju Island, Korea Original Research Article Pages 541-556 Kwang-Ho Paik, Eui-Hyeono Lee Pliocene-Pleistocene Palaeoenvironment and Fossil Ostracod Fauna from Southwestern Hokkaido, Japan Original Research Article Pages 557-568 Kei-Ichi Hayashi The Evolution of High Diversity in the Ostracod Communities of the Upper Pliocene Faunas of St. Erth (Cornwall, England) and North West France Original Research Article Pages 569-596 C. Maybury, R.C. Whatley Oligocene to Quaternary Ostracods of the Central Equatorial Pacific (Leg 85, DSDP-IPOD) Original Research Article Pages 597-617 Paul L. Steineck, David Dehler, Eric M. Hoose, Donald Mccalla Palaeobiogeography and Palaeoecology of the Tertiary Ostracods of Northwestern India with Palaeooceanographic Remarks Original Research Article Pages 619-636 Pratap Singh One Hundred Million Years of Predation on Ostracods: The Fossil Record in Texas Original Research Article Pages 637-657 Rosalie F. Maddocks Jurassic-Cretaceous Non-marine Ostracods from Israel and Palaeoenvironmental Implications Original Research Article Pages 659-669 Amnon Rosenfeld, Ephraim Gerry, Avraham Honiostein Distribution and Diversity of Nearshore Ostracoda: Environmental Control in the Early Permian Original Research Article Pages 671-683 Roger L. Kaesler, Larry E. Denver Lower Carboniferous Ostracode Assemblages from Nova Scotia Original Research Article Pages 685-696 Chris P. Dewey Deep-Sea Ostracoda, Taxonomy, Distribution and Morphology Original Research Article Pages 699-707 Gerd Hartmann, Gesa Hartmann-Schröuder The Anatomy of the Ostracod Pelecocythere purii sp. nov. and some Features connected with the Abyssal Mode of Life in this and some other Deep Water Forms Original Research Article Pages 709-720 John W. Neale Mediterranean Deep-sea Ostracods, the Species Poorness of the Eastern Basin as a Legacy of an Early Holocene Anoxic Event Original Research Article Pages 721-737 Dick Van Harten, Henk J. Droste Pandemic and Endemic Distribution Patterns in Quaternary Deep-sea Ostracoda Original Research Article Pages 739-755 Robin C. Whatley, Michael Ayress The Provincial Distribution of Shallow Water Indo-Pacific Marine Ostracoda: Origins, Antiquity, Dispersal Routes and Mechanisms Original Research Article Pages 759-786 Rosemary Titterton, Robin C. Whatley Distribution and Dispersal of Littoral Pacific Island Ostracoda Original Research Article Pages 787-795 Gerd Hartmann On the Occurrence of Javanella and Saida in the Pliocene of Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong, China Original Research Article Pages 797-803 Yun-Sian Gou, De-Qiong Chen Distribution of Modern Ostracoda in the Shelf Seas off China Original Research Article Pages 805-821 Quanhong Zhao, Pinxian Wang Paleobiogeography of Tethyan Cretaceous Marine Ostracods Original Research Article Pages 823-839 Jean-Francois Babinot, Jean-Paul Colin Marine Ostracod Distributions during the Early Breakup of Southern Gondwanaland Original Research Article Pages 841-854 Richard Dingle Ostracoda of the Early Jurassic Tethyan Ocean Original Research Article Pages 855-868 Alan R. Lord Geographical Isolation in Marine Species: Evolution and Speciation in Ostracoda, I Original Research Article Pages 871-889 Thomas M. Cronin The Interspecific Relations between Three Close Species of the Genus Cythere O. F. Miüler, 1785 Original Research Article Pages 891-917 Noriyuki Ikeya, Akira Tsukagoshi Speciation Completed? In Keijella bisanensis Species Group Original Research Article Pages 919-925 Katsumi Abe Evolution and Biogeography of Orionina in the Atlantic, Pacific and Caribbean: Evolution and Speciation in Ostracoda, II Original Research Article Pages 927-938 Thomas M. Cronin, Nancy Schmidt Polymorphism and Speciation Medoc Ostracods at the Eocene/Oligocene Boundary (Aquitaine, France) Original Research Article Pages 939-947 O. Ducasse, C. Lété, L. Rousselle The Pathways of Morphological Evolution of Bythocytheridae Original Research Article Pages 951-965 E.I. Schornikov The Evolution and Distribution of Cytherettine Ostracods Original Research Article Pages 967-986 Michael C. Keen Evolutionarily Significant Polymorphism in Marine Ostracods Original Research Article Pages 987-1001 Richard A. Reyment Environmentally Cued Polymorphism of Ostracods A Theoretical and Practical Approach. A Contribution to Geology and to the Understanding of Ostracod Evolution Original Research Article Pages 1003-1019 J.P. Peypouquet, P. Carbonel, O. Ducasse, M. Töulderer-Farmer, C. Lété Patterns and Rates of Evolution among Mesozoic Ostracoda Original Research Article Pages 1021-1040 Robin C. Whatley Homeomorphy, Phylogeny and Natural Classification: Case Studies Involving Palaeozoic Ostracods Original Research Article Pages 1041-1049 Roger E. Schallreuter Is Neckajatia an Ancestor of the Platycope Ostracodes? Original Research Article Pages 1051-1060 Robert F. Lundin Some Quaternary Ostracods of the Pannonian Basin with a review of a few neglectoida Original Research Article Pages 1063-1072 Nadežda Krstic Preliminary Notes on the Japanese Miocene Ostracoda Original Research Article Pages 1073-1085 Michiko Yajima Marine Ostracods of the Upper Miocene of the Well Ashtart 1 (Gulf of Gabès, Southeastern Tunisia) Original Research Article Pages 1087-1100 Gioacchino Bonaduce, Hector Bismuth, Giuliano Ruggieri, Antonio Russo, Patrizia Mascellaro Depositional Paleoecology of Miocene Ostracodes in the Monterey Formation, Laguna Hills, Southern California, U. S. A. Original Research Article Pages 1101-1111 Kenneth L. Finger Middle Miocene Ostracoda from Northern Iraq Original Research Article Pages 1113-1124 Saleh K. Khalaf Upper Oligocene-Lower Miocene Ostracods from the YPF. SCA. ECa. X-1 (El Campamento) Borehole, Austral Basin, Argentina Original Research Article Pages 1125-1145 Ana A. Kielbowicz Palaeocene Non-marine Ostracods in China Original Research Article Pages 1147-1152 Shao-Zeno Guan Biostratigraphy of Paleogene Non-marine Ostracoda from East China Original Research Article Pages 1153-1161 Jun-De He, Donald S. Van Nieuwenhuise, Frederick M. Swain Cretaceous and Palaeogene Ostracod Biostratigraphy in Xining and Minhe Basins of China Original Research Article Pages 1163-1171 Yi-Chun Had The Cretaceous Ostracod Faunas from the Fuxin Basin, Liaoning Province Original Research Article Pages 1173-1186 You-Gui Li, De-Ying Su, Li-Jun Zhang The Biostratigraphy of Cretaceous Ostracods from Oman Original Research Article Pages 1187-1206 J. Athersuch Ostracods from Non-marine Early Cretaceous Sediments of the Campos Basin, Brazil Original Research Article Pages 1207-1216 Joel A. Moura Ostracod Evolution and Depositional Characteristics of the Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation in the Songliao Basin, China Original Research Article Pages 1217-1227 De-Quan Ye Ostracoda Across the Albian/Cenomanian Boundary in Cambridgeshire and Western Suffolk, Eastern England Original Research Article Pages 1229-1244 Ian P. Wilkinson The Application of Ostracoda to the Location of the Non-marine Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary in the Sichuan Basin of China Original Research Article Pages 1245-1260 Yu-Wen Li Biostratigraphical Scale in the Toarcian of the Paris Basin (France) by Means of Ostracod Associations Original Research Article Pages 1261-1267 Anne-Marie Bodergat, Pierre Donze Ostracod Zones and Dispersion of Mesozoic Fossils in the Scandinavian North Sea Area Original Research Article Pages 1269-1281 Ole Bruun Christensen Ostracods from the Mesozoic Coal-Bearing Strata of Northern Shaanxi, China Original Research Article Pages 1283-1291 Mao-Yu Xu Records of Late Carboniferous Ostracods from Jingyuan, Gansu, Northwestern China Original Research Article Pages 1293-1302 Cong-Guang Shi, Zu-Wang Li Genera and Species Index Pages 1305-1335 General and Author Index Pages 1337-1356 Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Preface 12 List of Contributors 14 Participants and Non-attending Members 16 PART I. ADDRESSES AT THE OPENING SESSION 18 Chapter 1. Ostracoda-A historical perspective 20 Chapter 2. A taxonomist’s view on classification 34 PART II. TAXONOMY 44 Chapter 3. A Recent Dutch microorganism (A. J. Keij), with the description of Jankeijcythere new genus (Crustacea, Ostracoda) 46 Chapter 4. The North American genus Climacoidea Puri, 1956, and the tribe Campylocytherini (Neogene and Quaternary) 56 Chapter 5. Morphological affinities in Ostracoda, misleading and revealing 74 Chapter 6. A. Recent ornate bairdiid Ostracoda: Origin and distribution 80 Chapter 7. The Bairdia dynasty review-activities-aspects 92 Chapter 8. Some problems associated with the genus Uroleberis 98 Chapter 9. Tertiary and Recent species of Miocyprideis from India 110 Chapter 10. The genus Stigmatocythere from the Quilon Beds (Lower Miocene) of Kerala, India 122 Chapter 11. On ostracod biofacies and five new genera in Korean seas 138 Chapter 12. On the Recent Aurila species from Japan 152 Chapter 13. Function and significance of tubules: Tubulibairdia vs. Microcheilinella 162 Chapter 14. The free margin contact structures in some “palaeocopid” ostracods and their bearing on classification 176 PART III. MORPHOLOGY AND MORPHOGENESIS 192 Chapter 15. The origin of the “Xestoleberis-spot” 194 Chapter 16. Geometrical optics of some ostracod eyes 204 Chapter 17. The concept of cyclicity of morphogenesis 212 Chapter 18. Ontogeny of Bradleya normani (Brady): shape analysis of landmarks 224 Chapter 19. Multivariate analysis of leg morphology of Macrocyprididae 236 Chapter 20. A preliminary study on ornamentation and ultrastructure of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Ostracoda in China 252 Chapter 21. Ultrastructure of myodocopid shells (Ostracoda) 260 Chapter 22. Carapace sculpture in Amphissites (Kirkbyacea: Ostracoda) 276 Chapter 23. Evolution of Amphicostella from the Middle Devonian in Europe (Metacopa, Ostracoda) 292 PART IV. BIOLOGY 308 Chapter 24. Cytogenetic studies on marine myodocopid Ostracoda: The karyotypes of Gigantocypris dracontovalis Cannon, 1940 and Macrocypridina castanea (Brady, 1897) 310 PART V. ECOLOGY 318 Chapter 25. Morphological and ethological adaptations of Ostracoda to microhabitats in Zostera beds 320 Chapter 26. Morphological variations of Cytheromorpha acupunctata (Brady) in continuous populations at Hamana-ko bay, Japan 336 Chapter 27. The ostracod carapace as a hydrochemical source of information at water/sediment interface 358 Chapter 28. The impact of organic matter on ostracods from an equatorial deltaic area, the Mahakam delta–southeasternu Kalimantan 370 Chapter 29. Variation of Pistocythereis and Keijella species in Gamagyang Bay, south coast of Korea 384 Chapter 30. To see and not to be seen: The evolutionary problems of the Ostracoda Xestoleberididae 392 Chapter 31. A preliminary account of the distribution of Ostracoda in Recent reef and reef associated environments in the Pulau-Seribu or Thousand Island group, Java Sea 416 Chapter 32. Distribution of Recent Ostracoda in Ise and Mikawa bays, Pacific coast of central Japan 430 Chapter 33. Preliminary study on the ecology of ostracods from the moat of a coral reef off Sesoko Island, Okinawa, Japan 446 Chapter 34. Podocopid ostracods of Brisbane Water, near Sydney, south-eastern Australia 456 Chapter 35. Remarks of the benthic Ostracoda on the Tunisian Shelf 466 Chapter 36. Relationships between ecological models based on ostracods and foraminifers from Sepetiba Bay (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 484 Chapter 37. In search of Cypris and Cythere–A report of the evolutionary ecological project on limnic Ostracoda from Mondsee (Austria) 502 Chapter 38. Living ostracods from the nature reserve “Hordter Rheinaue” (Germany) 518 Chapter 39. Distribution of the brackish-salt water ostracods in northwestern Qinghai Plateau and its geological significance 536 PART VI. PALAEOECOLOGY 548 Chapter 40. The Iperk sequence (Plio-Pleistocene) and its ostracod assemblages in the eastern Beaufort Sea 550 Chapter 41. Plio-Pleistocene ostracods from the Sogwipo Formation, Cheju Island, Korea 558 Chapter 42. Pliocene-Pleistocene palaeoenvironment and fossil ostracod fauna from the southwestern Hokkaido, Japan 574 Chapter 43. The evolution of high diversity in the ostracod communities of the Upper Pliocene faunas of St. Erth (Cornwall, England) and northwest France 586 Chapter 44. Oligocene to Quaternary ostracods of the central equatorial Pacific (Leg 85, DSDP-IPOD) 614 Chapter 45. Palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology of the Tertiary ostracods of northwestern India with palaeooceanographic remarks 636 Chapter 46. One hundred million years of predation on ostracods: The fossil record in Texas 654 Chapter 47. Jurassic-Cretaceous non-marine ostracods from Israel and palaeoenvironmental implications 676 Chapter 48. Distribution and diversity of nearshore Ostracoda: Environmental control in the early Permian 688 Chapter 49. Lower Carboniferous ostracode assemblages from Nova Scotia 702 PART VII. DEEP SEA OSTRACODA 714 Chapter 50. Deep sea Ostracoda, taxonomy, distribution and morphology 716 Chapter 51. The anatomy of the ostracod Pelecocythere purii sp. nov. and some features connected with the abyssal mode of life in this and some other deep water forms 726 Chapter 52. Mediterranean deep-sea ostracods, the species poorness of the Eastern Basin, as a legacy of an early Holocene anoxic event 738 Chapter 53. Pandemic and endemic distribution patterns in Quaternary deep-sea Ostracoda 756 PART VIII. BIOGEOGRAPHY AND PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY 774 Chapter 54. The provincial distribution of shallow-water Indo- Pacific marine Ostracoda: Origins, antiquity, dispersal routes and mechanisms 776 Chapter 55. Distribution and dispersal of littoral Pacific Island Ostracoda 804 Chapter 56. On the occurrence of Javanella and Saida from the Pliocene of Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong, China 814 Chapter 57. Distribution of modern ostracods in the shelf seas off China 822 Chapter 58. Palaeogeography of Tethyan Cretaceous marine ostracods. 840 Chapter 59. Marine ostracod distributions during the early breakup of southern Gondwanaland 858 Chapter 60. Ostracoda of the early Jurassic Tethyan Ocean 872 PART IX. SPECIATION 886 Chapter 61. Geographical isolation in marine species: Evolution and speciation in Ostracoda, I 888 Chapter 62. The interspecific relations between three close species of the genus Cythere O. F. Müller, 1785 908 Chapter 63. Speciation completed? in Keijella bisanensis species group 936 Chapter 64. Evolution and biogeography of Orionina in the Atlantic, Pacific and Caribbean : Evolution and speciation in Ostracoda, II 944 Chapter 65. Polymorphism and speciation: Medoc ostracods at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary (Aquitaine, France) 956 PART X. EVOLUTION 966 Chapter 66. The pathways of morphological evolution of Bythocytheridae 968 Chapter 68. Evolutionarily significant polymorphism in marine ostracods 1004 Chapter 69. Environmentally cued polymorphism of ostracods–A theoretical and practical approach. A contribution to geology and to the understanding of ostracod evolution 1020 Chapter 70. Patterns and rates of evolution among Mesozoic Ostracoda 1038 Chapter 71. Homeomorphy, phylogeny and natural classification: Case studies involving Palaeozoic ostracods 1058 Chapter 72. Is Neckajatia an ancestor of the platycope ostracodes? 1068 PART XI. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND EXPLORATION 1078 Chapter 73. Some Quaternary ostracods of the Pannonian Basin, with a review of a few neglectoida 1080 Chapter 74. Preliminary notes on the Japanese Miocene Ostracoda 1090 Chapter 75. Marine ostracods of the Upper Miocene of the well Ashtart 1 (Gulf of Gabès, southeastern Tunisia) 1104 Chapter 76. Depositional paleoecology of Miocene ostracodes in the Monterey 1118 Chapter 77. Middle Miocene Ostracoda from northern Iraq 1130 Chapter 78. Upper Oligocene–Lower Miocene ostracods from the YPF. SCA. ECa. X-1 (El Campamento) borehole, Austral Basin, Argentina 1142 Chapter 79. Palaeocene non-marine ostracods in China 1164 Chapter 80. Biostratigraphy of Paleogene non-marine Ostracoda from East China 1170 Chapter 81. Cretaceous and Palaeogene ostracod biostratigraphy in Xining and Minhe Basins of China 1180 Chapter 82. The Cretaceous ostracod faunas from the Fuxin Basin, Liaoning Province 1190 Chapter 83. The biostratigraphy of Cretaceous ostracods from Oman 1204 Chapter 84. Ostracods from non-marine early Cretaceous sediments of Campos Basin, Brazil 1224 Chapter 85. Ostracod evolution and depositional characteristics of the Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation in Songliao Basin, China 1234 Chapter 86. Ostracoda across the Albian/Cenomanian (Cretaceous) boundary in Cambridgeshire and western Suffolk, eastern England 1246 Chapter 87. The application of Ostracoda to location of non-marine Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary in Sichuan Basin of China 1262 Chapter 88. Biostratigraphical scale in the Toarcian of the Paris Basin (France) by means of ostracod associations 1278 Chapter 89. Ostracod zones and dispersion of Mesozoic fossils in the Scandinavian North Sea area 1286 Chapter 90. Ostracods from the Mesozoic coal-bearing strata of northern Shaanxi, China 1300 Chapter 91. Records of the late Carboniferous ostracods from Jingyuan, Gansu, northwestern China 1310 Genera and Species Index 1322 General and Author Index 1354 There are many competitive works on the market concerning evolutionary biology, but this volume is quite distinctive in its idiographic aspect focusing on Ostracoda viewed from a wide range of disciplines, ages and environments. The book deals with various lines of idiographic biology and palaeontology of Ostracoda and nomothetic trials focusing strongly on evolutionary biology. Particular themes are morphology, biology, evolution, speciation, ecology, palaeoecology, deep sea fauna, biogeography, palaeobiogeography, biostratigraphy and exploration, all concerning Ostracoda.

The last decade has witnessed a spectacular renewal of interest in the study of Otracoda, particularly in the evolutionary biology of Ostracoda, including speciation. Ostracoda are unique, ranging in age from the Cambrian period to modern times with carapaces ready to be preserved as fossils, providing various lines of invaluable evidence regarding evolutionary processes.

More than 120 participants from 20 countries assembled at the Ninth International Symposium on Ostracoda and this book is a collection of all the papers presented at the Symposium, plus selected papers submitted by non-attending members. It presents an outstanding record of much pioneering research and will be of interest to specalists in Ostracoda as well as all earth and life scientists concerned with evolution. Its value is further enhanced by easy-to-use indexes of authors, localities and taxa.