Team Publications

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

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18MAR 2021
Team Publications
Microvertebrates from Saltford
“The famous Rhaetian bone bed (Late Triassic, 205 Ma) is well known because it marks a major switch in depositional environment from terrestrial red beds to fully marine conditions throughout the UK and much of Europe. The bone bed is generally cemented and less than 10 cm thick. However, we report here an unusual case […]
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06MAR 2021
Team Publications
Distraction sinking and fossilized coleoid predatory behaviour
“Exceptional fossil preservation is required to conserve soft-bodied fossils and even more so to conserve their behaviour. Here, we describe a fossil of a co-occurrence of representatives of two different octobrachian coleoid species. The fossils are from the Toarcian Posidonienschiefer of Ohmden near Holzmaden, Germany. The two animals died in the act of predation, i.e. […]
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02MAR 2021
Team Publications
Handout to the R package divDyn v0.8.1
“The purpose of this vignette is to guide users through the basic capabilities of the ‘divDyn’ package. Fossil occurrence databases, such as the Paleobiology Database (PaleoDB, http://www.paleobiodb.org/, http://fossilworks.org) are readily available to be used in analyses of diversity, extinction and origination patterns (the dynamics of biodiversity), with a certain toolkit that has become standard since […]“The purpose of this vignette is to guide users through the basic capabilities of the ‘divDyn’ package. Fossil occurrence databases, such as the Paleobiology Database (PaleoDB, http://www.paleobiodb.org/, http://fossilworks.org) are readily available to be used in analyses of diversity, extinction and origination patterns (the dynamics of biodiversity), with a certain toolkit that has become standard since […]
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02MAR 2021
Team Publications
The North West Highlands UNESCO Global Geopark: Oldest Fossils in Europe
“The North West Highlands Geopark is probably one of the largest geoparks anywhere, comprising 2000 km2 of remote, mountainous and coastal terrain. It was the first European Geopark to be recognised in Scotland in 2004 and was designated by UNESCO as a Global Geopark in 2015. Since then, it has been very successful in delivering projects […]
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01MAR 2021
Team Publications
Euestheria gutta (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata)
“The Permian–Triassic mass extinction was the largest biotic extinction event in the Phanerozoic and affected both marine and continental life. Marine Permian–Triassic transitional sequences can be correlated in many regions, but this has proved difficult for continental successions. A growing number of studies show that spinicaudatans are some of the most common fossils in continental […]“The Permian–Triassic mass extinction was the largest biotic extinction event in the Phanerozoic and affected both marine and continental life. Marine Permian–Triassic transitional sequences can be correlated in many regions, but this has proved difficult for continental successions. A growing number of studies show that spinicaudatans are some of the most common fossils in continental […]
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15FEB 2021
Team Publications
Incorporating Hierarchical Characters into Phylogenetic Analysis
“Popular optimality criteria for phylogenetic trees focus on sequences of characters that are applicable to all the taxa. As studies grow in breadth, it can be the case that some characters are applicable for a portion of the taxa and inapplicable for others. Past work has explored the limitations of treating inapplicable characters as missing […]
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