FAU Open Research Challenge
"With its third Open Research Challenge, the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) is primarily targeting young international scientific talents or junior teams with a penchant for big data, algorithms and gaming. They have the opportunity to solve c...
"Highlights
Four monospecific biostromes recorded in the Campanian-Maastrichtian Duwi Formation of Egypt.
The taphonomic features were quantitatively analyzed (multivariate analysis, shell size and orientation).
The oyster parabiostromes occupy early TST, while the heterodont bivalve auto...
"Macroecological and macroevolutionary processes are elucidated by reconstructing geographic range sizes from fossil data. Simulation-based extinction experiments were performed and results by the authors suggest that both the relative paleogeographic range size can be consistently reconstructed an...
The Division of Paleontology at the FAU is largely focusing on marine systems and timescales spanning millions of years in order to study the relationship between environmental change and evolution. Among lab work, geochemistry, and microscopy, modelling and statistical analyses become more and mor...
"The authors use ecospace modelling to quantify ecological disparity across all Mesozoic marine tetrapods documenting the explosive radiation of marine tetrapod groups throughout the Triassic. After the Late Triassic extinctions high levels of ecological disparity were again achieved by the Late J...
"Results: The power function was the most suitable function across the studied taxonomic groups. The superiority of this function increased from lichens to bryophytes to vascular plants to all three taxonomic groups together. The sampling method was highly influential as rooted presence sampling de...
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"Disputing the supposition that ecological competition drives macroevolutionary patterns is now a familiar goal in many fossil biodiversity studies. But it is an elusive goal, hampered by patchy sampling, few assemblage-level comparative analyses, unverified ecological equivalence of clades and a d...
"Highlights
•Data from eurypterids suggest horseshoe crabs were not secondarily aquatic
•A three-dimensionally preserved eurypterid, Adelophthalmus pyrrhae, is described
•Computed tomography reveals the presence of trabeculae on the respiratory lamellae
•Occurrence of tra...
"As the climate changes and ecosystems shift toward novel combinations of species, the methods and metrics of conservation science are becoming less species-centric. To meet this growing need, marine conservation paleobiologists stand to benefit from the addition of new, taxon-free benthic indices ...
