Team Publications

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

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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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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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