Invertebrate Palaeontology and Sequence Stratigraphy:udcomplementary methods and evidence to explain the geologicaludrecord

摘要

The fossil record and the stratigraphic record are two components of the geological record different in nature, and theyudcan be separately interpreted and tested in many cases of Invertebrate Palaeontology. Abundance, diversity and stratigraphicudpersistence are outstanding features of the fossil invertebrates. Therefore, the complementarity (as the capacity of twoudcontrasted theories together to explain a body of phenomena, although each separately accounts for only some aspects) or theudconsilience (as the fact or condition of being inferred from different phenomena) between Palaeontology and SequenceudStratigraphy through the study of fossil invertebrates is specially useful for the interpretation of the geological record and theudpalaeoenvironmental changes.