The rise of animals evolution and diversification of the kingdom animalia - Fedonkin, M. A. (Mikhail Aleksandrovich). (Baltimore, Md. John Hopkins University Press, 2007)
The background. The Archean (4.5 million to 2500 million years ago) / P. Vickers-Rich and M.A. Fedonkin -- The background. The Proterozoic (2.5 billion to 542 million years ago) / P. Vickers-Rich and M.A. Fedonkin -- The misty coasts of Newfoundland / G.M. Narbonne, J.G. Gehling and P. Vickers-Rich -- The Nama fauna of southern Africa / P. Vickers-Rich -- The Ediacara Hills / J.G. Gehling and P. Vickers-Rich -- The White Sea's windswept coasts / M.A. Fedonkin and P. Vickers-Rich -- Podolia's green valleys / M.A. Fedonkin and P. Vickers-Rich -- The Siberian tundra / M.A. Fedonkin and P. Vickers-Rich -- The Urals / M.A. Fedonkin and P. Vickers-Rich -- The Canadian Cordillera / Guy M. Narbonne -- Beyond the major sites / P. Vickers-Rich and M.A. Fedonkin -- First trace of motion / M.A. Fedonkin and P. Vickers-Rich -- The world of the very small : fueling the Animalia / K. Grey -- Body plans, strange and familiar, and the enigma of 542 / P. Vickers-Rich -- Atlas of Precambrian metazoans / P. Vickers-Rich ... [et al.].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-313) and index.
Keywords: Geology, Stratigraphic -- Proterozoic; Paleontology -- Proterozoic; Biodiversity; Organisms; Life -- Origin; Evolution