Team Publications

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

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05OCT 2020
Team Publications
Tetrapods of the Ruthin fissure
“Cave deposits across South Wales and southwest England have yielded Late Triassic to Early Jurassic tetrapod faunas – the authors present a hitherto little studied fissure at Ruthin Quarry in South Wales. 11 taxa were identified including new genus and species named here Smilodonterpeton ruthinensis. Most of the taxa appear to be ‘primitive’, and their […]
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05OCT 2020
Team Publications
The Rhaetian at Hapsford Bridge
“One of the most dramatic environmental changes in the Mesozoic history of Europe was the switch from terrestrial to marine deposition marked by the Rhaetian Transgression, 205 Ma. Beginning with this event, the Mendip Hills, composed primarily of uplifted and folded Lower Carboniferous limestones, were flooded in a stepwise manner from the Late Triassic to mid Cretaceous. The basal […]
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01OCT 2020
Team Publications
Monospecific biostromes in the Campanian-Maastrichtian
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01OCT 2020
Team Publications
Reconstruction of geographic range sizes from fossil data
“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 and that selectivity patterns on range size can be preserved under many extinction intensities,…”Reconstructing geographic range sizes from fossil […]“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 and that selectivity patterns on range size can be preserved under many extinction intensities,…”Reconstructing geographic range sizes from fossil […]
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30SEP 2020
Team Publications
Mesozoic ecospace occupancy
“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 Jurassic and ecospace became saturated by the Late Cretaceous. Established groups remained ecologically conservative […]“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 Jurassic and ecospace became saturated by the Late Cretaceous. Established groups remained ecologically conservative […]
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19SEP 2020
Team Publications
Palaearctic grasslands and other non‐forested habitats
“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 decreased the performance of the power function. By contrast, biome and vegetation […]
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