"Mass-occurrences of oncocerid cephalopods from the Givetian of Morocco are studied regarding their pairwise pattern of clustering. The authors suggest that oncocerids were semelparous and died shortly after mating."Reproductive strategies of extinct organisms can only be recognised indirectly and ...
"The aetosaur Stagonolepis robertsoni was the first reptile to be named from the Late Triassic Lossiemouth Sandstone Formation of Morayshire. Its characteristic rectangular armour plates have been reported in isolation and in association with skeletal remains. Here we present for the first time a t...
"Rapid climate change is postulated to cause marine extinctions, especially among climate-sensitive clades, traits and regions. This premise is based on two hypotheses: (1) known individual physiological sensitivities scale up to macroecological selectivity patterns and (2) ancient hyperthermal eve...
"Sedimentary successions provide direct evidence of climate and tectonics, and these give clues about the causes of the mass extinction around the Permian–Triassic boundary. Terrestrial Permian–Triassic boundary strata in the eastern Ordos Basin, North China, include the Late Permian Sunjiagou, Ear...
"The Late Triassic and Early Jurassic fissures around Bristol and South Wales are famous as sources of excellent fossils of early mammals, dinosaurs, sphenodontians, and other tetrapods. However, the ways in which these fissures filled with sediment have not often been documented. Moreover, systema...
"The Muensterelloidea is a superfamily of teudopseid octobrachians with a posteriorly patella-shaped gladius. A morphometric comparison based on 148 muensterelloid gladii has yielded five new species accommodated in three new genera: Engeseriteuthis arcuatus gen. et sp. nov., Muensterella jillae sp...
"Direct evidence of successful or failed predation is rare in the fossil record but essential for reconstructing extinct food webs. Here, we report the first evidence of a failed predation attempt by a pterosaur on a soft-bodied coleoid cephalopod. A perfectly preserved, fully grown soft-tissue spe...
"Generative growth models have been the basis for numerous studies of morphological diversity and evolution. Most work has focused on modeling accretionary growth systems, with much less attention to discrete growth systems. Generative growth models for molting organisms, such as arthropods, have r...
"In this study datasets of cheilostom bryozoans were compared and combined to reconstruct latitudinal species richness curve illustrating that these bryozoans display a bimodal global latitudinal diversity gradient with peaks in temperate zones."We use natural language processing (NLP) to retrieve ...
"Species–area relationships (SARs) are fundamental scaling laws in ecology although their shape is still disputed. At larger areas, power laws best represent SARs. Yet, it remains unclear whether SARs follow other shapes at finer spatial grains in continuous vegetation. We asked which function desc...
