Team Publications

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

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15JUL 2020
Team Publications
Ontogeny of the trilobite Elrathia kingii
“Trilobites offer insight into the growth and development of fossil ecdysozoans. Elrathia kingii (Meek) is used to estimate growth rates and describe shape change over the ontogeny. The rate of cephalic shape change in E. kingii decreased at the transition from meraspis to holaspis, while the pygidium became more morphologically distinct from the thorax during holaspis”Trilobites […]
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13JUL 2020
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Biodiversity patterns across the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
“The alternation of cold and mild phases during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA; 372 – 254 million years ago) led to changes in the composition of animal life. We analyze how the diversity of lamp shells (brachiopods), snails (gastropods), and bivalves (clams, scallops, mussels, etc.) changes throughout the LPIA. In general, brachiopods were more […]
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06JUL 2020
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Future environmental change
“Models for future environmental change all involve global warming, whether slow or fast. Predicting how plants and animals will respond to such warming can be aided by using ecogeographic biological ‘rules’, some long-established, that make predictions based on observations in nature, as well as plausible physiological and ecological expectations. Bergmann’s rule is well known, namely […]“Models for future environmental change all involve global warming, whether slow or fast. Predicting how plants and animals will respond to such warming can be aided by using ecogeographic biological ‘rules’, some long-established, that make predictions based on observations in nature, as well as plausible physiological and ecological expectations. Bergmann’s rule is well known, namely […]
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02JUL 2020
Team Publications
Geological control on dinosaurs’ rise to dominance
“The Late Triassic is enigmatic in terms of how terrestrial life evolved: it was the time when new groups arose, such as dinosaurs, lizards, crocodiles and mammals. Also, it witnessed a prolonged period of extinctions, distinguishing it from other great mass extinction events, while the gradual rise of the dinosaurs during the Carnian to Norian […]
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01JUL 2020
Team Publications
Insect deposition in lentic environments
“Terrestrial insects are often remarkably well preserved in lacustrine Konservat Lagerstätten. However, the assumption that carcasses should sink fast through the water column seems contradictory as this scenario is unlikely due to excessive buoyancy and surface tension. The mechanisms that promote rapid and permanent emplacement onto the sediment surface (RPESS) of such terrestrial animal remains […]“Terrestrial insects are often remarkably well preserved in lacustrine Konservat Lagerstätten. However, the assumption that carcasses should sink fast through the water column seems contradictory as this scenario is unlikely due to excessive buoyancy and surface tension. The mechanisms that promote rapid and permanent emplacement onto the sediment surface (RPESS) of such terrestrial animal remains […]
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01JUL 2020
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Morphological disparity
“Analyses of morphological disparity have been used to characterize and investigate the evolution of variation in the anatomy, function and ecology of organisms since the 1980s. While a diversity of methods have been employed, it is unclear whether they provide equivalent insights. Here, we review the most commonly used approaches for characterizing and analysing morphological […]
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