Team Publications

Publications by the members of the Paleosynthesis Team and Scientific Advisory Board

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12OCT 2022
Team Publications
Extreme abundance of ammonoids
“The eastern Anti-Atlas is renowned for its highly fossiliferous outcrops of Devonian rocks. Ammonoids occur in rock-forming numbers at many localities in the Tafilalt and Maïder. This study addresses the questions of how many ammonoids are preserved within a standardized area as well as over the whole Tafilalt and Maïder basins, and how these mass […]
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06OCT 2022
Team Publications
Dietary niche partitioning in Early Jurassic ichthyosaurs
“Jurassic ichthyosaurs dominated upper trophic levels of marine ecosystems. Many species coexisted alongside each another, and it is uncertain whether they competed for the same array of food or divided dietary resources, each specializing in different kinds of prey. Here, we test whether feeding differences existed between species, applying finite element analysis to ichthyosaurs for […]
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06OCT 2022
Team Publications
Impact of the Jenkyns Event (early Toarcian) on dinosaurs
“The Early Jurassic Jenkyns Event (~183 Ma) was characterized in terrestrial environments by global warming, perturbation of the carbon cycle, enhanced weathering and wildfires. Heating and acid rain on land caused a loss of forests and affected diversity and composition of land plant assemblages and the rest of the trophic web. We suggest that the Jenkyns […]
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04OCT 2022
Team Publications
Modularity in the trilobite head
“The trilobite head served multiple functions and was composed of several fused segments. Yet, the underlying organization of the trilobite head, and whether patterns are conserved across trilobites, remains unclear. Modeling the head as being composed of modules, or subunits that vary and thus have the potential to evolve semi‐independently can reveal underlying patterns of […]
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29SEP 2022
Team Publications
Reply to: Revisiting life history and morphological proxies
REPLYING TO S. Meiri & E. Levin Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32715-0 (2022) In an article examining the physiology of Early Jurassic mammaliaform stem-mammals, we used proxies for basal and maximum metabolic rate, providing evidence that two key fossil mammaliaforms had metabolic rates closer to modern reptiles than modern mammals. Meiri and Levin questioned the use of our proxy for basal metabolic […]REPLYING TO S. Meiri & E. Levin Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32715-0 (2022) In an article examining the physiology of Early Jurassic mammaliaform stem-mammals, we used proxies for basal and maximum metabolic rate, providing evidence that two key fossil mammaliaforms had metabolic rates closer to modern reptiles than modern mammals. Meiri and Levin questioned the use of our proxy for basal metabolic […]
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26SEP 2022
Team Publications
Higher taxonomic nomenclature of ammonoids
“For the taxon comprising all Devonian to Cretaceous ammonoids, a variety of conflicting names with different authorship and taxonomic rank are available and have been repeatedly cited. Here, we review the primary literature and suggest the appropriate name, authorship and date of publication; we suggest the rank of a superorder for the ammonoids. The monophylum […]
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