"Phylogenetic inferences using combined datasets of both extant and extinct species have grown increasingly popular, in part thanks to the development of the fossilized birth–death (FBD) process. The FBD process provides a powerful model for the evolution of past and present lineages and can be use...
"Reconstructing the evolutionary history of different groups of organisms provides insight into how life originated and diversified on Earth. Phylogenetic trees are commonly used to estimate this evolutionary history. Within Bayesian phylogenetics a major step in estimating a tree is in choosing an...
"Aim: To test if temperature significantly influences the global biogeographic distribution of marine epifaunal bivalves via their skeletal mineralogy. Location: Global. Taxa: Marine, epifaunal bivalves. Methods: The skeletal mineralogy of 45,789 epifaunal bivalve occurrences from 669 species from ...
Different theories have been proposed to explain the phenotypic changes observed in island lineages, but it remains unclear if predictable evolutionary trajectories can be identified within island communities.
Using a 3D functional space approach, we tested whether insular endemic species tend ...
"The plant macrofossil assemblage from a Rhaetian succession of a quarry near Einberg (Franconia, Germany), of which ferns, cycadophytes and ginkgophytes had been published earlier, comprises two conifer species (Schizolepidopsis liasokeuperianus and Stachyotaxus septentrionalis) that are unambiguo...
"Evolutionary relationships of fossil gastropods have largely been inferred using taxonomic systematics. Phylogenetic relationships between extinct gastropod groups and their relationship to extant groups are largely unresolved. Here we reconstruct the phylogeny of Pleurotomariida, which has the lo...
"This study focuses on newly collected plant fossils from the Cisuralian successions of the Khenifra Basin in Central Morocco, revealing a diverse assemblage dominated by conifers, pteridosperms, and sphenophytes. The assemblage includes eleven taxa of vegetative and reproductive organs preserved a...
"Phylogenetic models are commonly used in palaeobiology to study the patterns and processes of organismal evolution. In the human sciences, phylogenetic methods have been deployed for reconstructing ancestor–descendant relationships using linguistic and material culture data. Within evolutionary ar...
"Aim: To determine the degree to which assemblages of planktonic foraminifera track thermal conditions. Location: The world's oceans. Time Period: The last 700,000 years of glacial–interglacial cycles. Major Taxa Studied: Planktonic foraminifera. Methods: We investigate assemblage dynamics in plank...
"Hard substrate communities can impact coral reef growth by adding or removing calcium carbonate when they act as encrusters or bioeroders, respectively. Although such sclerobiont communities are known across the Phanerozoic, the Triassic saw a substantial increase in reef macrobioerosion. This stu...
