Team Publications

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

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26OCT 2020
Team Publications
Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic)
“The Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic) was a time of global environmental changes and possibly substantial coeval volcanism. The extent of the biological turnover in marine and terrestrial ecosystems is not well understood. Here, we present a meta-analysis of fossil data that suggests a substantial reduction in generic and species richness and the disappearance of […]
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20OCT 2020
Team Publications
Crustose coralline algae as reef cementers
Crustose coralline algae (CCA) play a key role in the consolidation of many modern tropical coral reefs but how about the past? The authors found a strong correlation between the presence of CCA and the formation of true coral reefs throughout the last 150 million years. Repeated breakdowns in the potential capacity of CCA spurred […]
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15OCT 2020
Team Publications
Neodiapsid Reptile from England
“A new taxon of early diapsid, Feralisaurus corami from the Middle Triassic of Devon, south-western England, is here named and described. CT scanning and the resultant 3D model of the skeleton reveal anatomical details otherwise buried in the sandstone matrix. Phylogenetic analyses, although showing generalized weak support, retrieved Feralisaurus within Neodiapsida or stem-group Lepidosauromorpha: its […]“A new taxon of early diapsid, Feralisaurus corami from the Middle Triassic of Devon, south-western England, is here named and described. CT scanning and the resultant 3D model of the skeleton reveal anatomical details otherwise buried in the sandstone matrix. Phylogenetic analyses, although showing generalized weak support, retrieved Feralisaurus within Neodiapsida or stem-group Lepidosauromorpha: its […]
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15OCT 2020
Team Publications
Migration controls extinction and survival
“The Permian-Triassic mass extinction triggered the complete replacement of ecosystems. Here, foraminifers were studied including 173 species and 62 genera from South China. The authors propose “that foraminifera migrated to deeper water to avoid overheating and toxicity in shallow waters that were driven by the emplacement of the Siberian Traps and coeval volcanic activities around […]
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12OCT 2020
Team Publications
Early Jurassic stem-mammals
“Despite considerable advances in knowledge of the anatomy, ecology and evolution of early mammals, far less is known about their physiology. Evidence is contradictory concerning the timing and fossil groups in which mammalian endothermy arose. To determine the state of metabolic evolution in two of the earliest stem-mammals, the Early Jurassic Morganucodon and Kuehneotherium, we use separate proxies […]“Despite considerable advances in knowledge of the anatomy, ecology and evolution of early mammals, far less is known about their physiology. Evidence is contradictory concerning the timing and fossil groups in which mammalian endothermy arose. To determine the state of metabolic evolution in two of the earliest stem-mammals, the Early Jurassic Morganucodon and Kuehneotherium, we use separate proxies […]
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10OCT 2020
Team Publications
Increased extinction in the emergence of novel ecological communities
Scientists from Australia and Professor Wolfgang Kiessling have published an article in Science that provides a robust basis for the identification of “New Ecosystems”. Fossils, in their study, play a special role and demonstrate that paleontology/-biology may play a special role in such studies. The authors also noted that the risk of species extinction increases […]
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