"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 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...
"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...
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•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 ...
"Although belemnite rostra can be quite abundant in Jurassic and Cretaceous strata, the record of belemnite jaws was limited to a few specimens from Germany and Russia. Here, we describe and figure three cephalopod jaws from the Middle Jurassic Opalinus Clay of northern Switzerland. Although flatte...
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Birds and mammals likely acquired endothermy (warm-bloodedness) at the same time
This time was the Early Triassic, as suggested by phylogenetic macroevolutionary studies of both archosaurs and synapsids
Life remodelled itself most significantly in the aftermath of the devastat...
"Coralline algae occur from the the poles to the tropics. However, findings exclusively are from marine environments. In 2016 the first freshwater coralline alga was discovered and is described here."Coralline algae are one of the most diversified groups of red algae and represent a major component...
