Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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A new Early Devonian antiarch placoderm from Belarus, and the phylogeny of Asterolepidoidei [PDF]
A new asterolepidoid antiarch, Sherbonaspis talimaae sp. nov., is described based on the disarticulated skeletal elements from several boreholes in Belarus, from the Lepel Beds of the Vitebsk Formation, which has been assigned to an Early Devonian, late ...
Dmitry P. Plax, Ervins Lukševičs
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Devonian basaltic magmatism of Central Alborz: An evidence for Paleo- Tethys rifting [PDF]
In the north east of Tehran province and in the Central Alborz zone, a thick basaltic horizon occurs at the boundary of Jeiroud and Mobarak Formations near the Jeiroud village and Darbandsar and Garmabdar areas, indicating a nonconformity boundary of ...
Amir Ali Tabbakh Shabani +2 more
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Was the Devonian placoderm Titanichthys a suspension feeder? [PDF]
Large nektonic suspension feeders have evolved multiple times. The apparent trend among apex predators for some evolving into feeding on small zooplankton is of interest for understanding the associated shifts in anatomy and behaviour, while the spatial ...
Samuel J. Coatham +3 more
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Fish assemblages from the Middle–Upper Devonian of the Middle Urals, Russia
New assemblages of diverse fishes from the Givetian–Famennian were described in six sections in the Middle Urals: Pokrovskoe, Baronskaya, Sulem, Pershino, Yokva, and Vilva.
A.O. Ivanov
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New information on Brindabellaspis stensioi Young, 1980, highlights morphological disparity in Early Devonian placoderms [PDF]
Acid-prepared specimens of the placoderm Brindabellaspis stensioi (Early Devonian of New South Wales, Australia) revealed placoderm endocranial anatomy in unprecedented detail.
Benedict King +2 more
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The Coral-Rich Devonian Limestones of the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark [PDF]
The coral-rich limestones of the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark were an important component of the original definition of the Devonian System, introduced by Sedgwick and Murchison in 1840.
Malcolm Hart, Christopher Smart
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First record of conulariids from the Tērvete Formation, Upper Devonian of Latvia [PDF]
Phosphatized remains belonging to conulariids have been found in the Middle Famennian (Upper Devonian) deposits of the TÄrvete Formation of Latvia for the first time.
Ervīns Lukševičs
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This is the first report of organic-walled tentaculid remains from Givetian through Frasnian age deposits of the Michigan and Appalachian Basins in western Laurussia.
Kimberly C. Meehan, James T. Boyle
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Middle–Late Devonian conodont fauna of the Bahram Formation in the Shahzadeh Mohammad section, North of Kerman [PDF]
Devonian deposits of the Bahram Formation with a thickness of 300 m were studied based on conodont fauna in Shahzadeh Mohammad section (33 km east of Zarand, 95 km north of Kerman city) in central Iran structural Zone.
Fattaneh Zamani +5 more
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