Literature and web links

Acknowledgements

Toby White, the webmaster at Palaeos.com and wikipedia for copyright permission, also Liz Loeffer for access to the University of Bristol University teaching collection and Professor Benton for permission to reproduce his asteroid morphology diagram.

Further Reading:

Benton, M. and Harper, D. 1997. Basic Palaeontology. Addison Wesley Longman, pp 132-155

Blake, D. B. 1987. A classification and phylogeny of post-Paleozoic sea stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History, 21, 481-528.

Clarkson, E. N. K. 2001. Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution. Blackwell Science, pp 262-317.

David, B. and Mooi, R. 1997. Major events in the evolution of echinoderms viewed by the light of embryology. In Echinoderms: San Francisco (R. Mooi and M. Telford, eds.). Balkema, Rotterdam. In press.

Littlewood, D. T. J., Smith, A. B., Clough, K. A. and Emson, R. H. 1997. The interrelationships of the echinoderm classes: morphological and molecular evidence. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 61, 409-438.

Sumrall, C. and J. Sprinkle. 1997. Phylogenetic analysis of living Echinodermata based on primitive fossil taxa. In Echinoderms: San Francisco (R. Mooi and M. Telford, eds.). Balkema, Rotterdam. In press.

Visit

http://www.bristol-city.gov.uk/ccm/content/Leisure-Culture/Museums-Galleries/city-museum-and-art-gallery.en

Web links to geological localities

http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Fossil_Sites/Bundenbach/Bundenbach.htm

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/jurassic/solnhofen.html

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/bridport.htm

Web links to geological timescales

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Education/britstrat/timecharts/phaner.html

http://www.palaeos.com/Timescale/timescale.html

Web links to photo origin web sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.palaeos.com/Invertebrates/Deuterostomia/Homalozoa/Stylophora.html

Web links to the University of Bristol related sites:

http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Fossilgroups/index.html

http://www.bris.ac.uk/

http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/opportunities/MSc.html

http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/

http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Fossilgroups/Crinoidea/index.html

http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Fossilgroups/Echinoidea/index.html

Web links:

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Echinode_ClassConcentricycloidea.asp

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/echinodermata/holothuroidea.html

http://www.sidwell.edu/us/science/vlb5/Labs/Classification_Lab/Eukarya/Animalia/Echinodermata/Asterozoa/Ophiuroidea/

http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Asteroidea&contgroup=Echinodermata

http://www.palaeos.com/Invertebrates/Deuterostomia/Homalozoa/Stylophora.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/echinodermata/crinoidea.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinodermata

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Holothuroidea.html

http://www.palaeos.com/Invertebrates/Echinoderms/Ophiuroidea/Ophiuroidea.htm

http://www.fossilcrinoid.com/blastoid.html

http://www.vsf.cape.com/~jdale/science/reproduction.htm

http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/InvertPaleo/Trenton/Intro/PaleoPage/TrentonFauna/Echinodermata/Crinozoa/Crinozoa.htm

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Author: Elizabeth Sweet
Last updated: 22nd November 2005
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