"The fitness of groups is often considered to be the average fitness among constituent members. This assumption has been useful for developing models of multilevel selection, but its uncritical adoption has held back our understanding of how multilevel selection actually works in nature. If group f...
"Natural history museums house numerous previously undescribed species and unknown information hidden in their collections. We describe lower Carboniferous slit-bearing gastropods (order Pleurotomariida, subclass Vetigastropoda; and family Goniasmatidae, subclass Caenogastropoda) from previously un...
"Conifers of the order Voltziales were important components of Triassic floras. Their pollen is likewise abundant in microfloras from this period. Voltzialean pollen grains are known to have a considerable range of morphologies, but taxonomic distinctions based on these differences require thorough...
"Tridentinosaurus antiquus represents one of the oldest fossil reptiles and one of the very few skeletal specimens with evidence of soft tissue preservation from the Cisuralian (Early Permian) of the Italian Alps. The preservation and appearance of the fossil have puzzled palaeontologists for decad...
"Ongoing climate change substantially alters snowfall patterns with severe but diverging consequences for global ski areas. A global assessment as well as the investigation of potential implications for mountain ecosystems is currently lacking. We quantify future trends in natural snow cover days u...
"We used a combined approach (lithofacies and palynology) and multivariate analyses to reconstruct the different depositional environments and changes in the plant communities throughout the middle to late Kungurian in the tropical Pangea. The late Paleozoic terrestrial biotas underwent changes und...
"Stratigraphic paleobiology uses a modern understanding of the construction of the stratigraphic record-from beds to depositional sequences to sedimentary basins-to interpret patterns and guide sampling strategies in the fossil record. Over the past 25 years, its principles have been established pr...
"Main conclusions Planktonic foraminiferal assemblages were generally able to track or endure temperature changes: as climate warmed or cooled, bio-indicated temperature also became warmer or cooler, although to a variable degree. At polar sites under warming and at equatorial sites under cooling, ...
"Tridentinosaurus antiquus represents one of the oldest fossil reptiles and one of the very few skeletal specimens with evidence of soft tissue preservation from the Cisuralian (Early Permian) of the Italian Alps. The preservation and appearance of the fossil have puzzled palaeontologists for decad...
"The Late Triassic macroplant fossil collections from Udine Province are unique but have only been partially studied so far. Here we provide an overview of the plant fossil assemblages from the Triassic of the Udine Province, stored at the Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale in Udine and at the Museo...
