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Stratigraphic paleobiology

Paleobiology
Stratigraphic paleobiology uses a modern understanding of the construction of the stratigraphic record—from beds to depositional sequences to sedimentary basins—to interpret patterns and guide sampling strategies in the fossil record.
Steven M. Holland, M. Patzkowsky, Katharine M. Loughney   +2 more
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The fossil record of early tetrapods: worker effort and the end-Permian mass extinction [PDF]

, 2010
It is important to understand the quality of the fossil record of early tetrapods (Tetrapoda, minus Lissamphibia and Amniota) because of their key role in the transition of vertebrates from water to land, their dominance of terrestrial faunas for over ...
Bebber D.F., Benton M.J., Benton M.J., Benton M.J., Emma L. Bernard, Fara E., Fara E., Flessa K.W., Jaeger G.F., James E. Tarver, Marcello Ruta, Maxwell W.D., Michael J. Benton, Peters S.E., Raup D.M., Schoch R.R., Sepkoski J.J., Valentine J.W., Wickström L.M.   +18 more
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Precambrian Paleobiology: Precedents, Progress, and Prospects

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
In 1859, C. R. Darwin highlighted the “inexplicable” absence of evidence of life prior to the beginning of the Cambrian. Given this lack of evidence and the natural rather than theological unfolding of life’s development Darwin espoused, over the ...
J. Schopf
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Bone microstructure of the sphenodont rhynchocephalian Priosphenodon avelasi and its paleobiological implications [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Sphenodontians are a group of vertebrates with a vast taxonomic diversity and worldwide distribution of their fossils. Although they have been the subject of many studies on their phylogeny and morphology, those focused on their paleobiology are still ...
SOL A. CAVASIN, IGNACIO A. CERDA, SEBASTIÁN APESTEGUÍA   +2 more
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Seven rules for simulations in paleobiology

Paleobiology, 2020
. Simulations are playing an increasingly important role in paleobiology. When designing a simulation study, many decisions have to be made and common challenges will be encountered along the way.
Joëlle Barido‐Sottani, E. Saupe, T. Smiley, L. Soul, A. Wright, R. Warnock   +5 more
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Declining Volatility, a General Property of Disparate Systems: From Fossils, to Stocks, to the Stars

, 2013
There may be structural principles pertaining to the general behavior of systems that lead to similarities in a variety of different contexts. Classic examples include the descriptive power of fractals, the importance of surface area to volume ...
ADRAIN, ANG, BAKER, BAMBACH, BENTON, BONNER, BRIGGS, BROMHAM, BROOKS, CERVANTES-COTA, CORNETTE, CUCCIATI, ELDREDGE, ELDREDGE, ELDREDGE, FELLER, FOOTE, GALILEO, GEHRELS, GILINSKY, GILINSKY, GOODMAN, GOULD, GOULD, GOULD, GOULD, GOULD, GOULD, GOULD, GOULD, JABLONSKI, JABLONSKI, JABLONSKI, JOHNSON, JUST, KARACESKI, KAUFMAN, KIRCHNER, KRUG, KURTÉN, LIEBERMAN, LIEBERMAN, LIEBERMAN, LIEBERMAN, LIEBERMAN, LILY, LINEWEAVER, LLOYD, LO, MacARTHUR, MADAU, MANDELBROT, McGOWAN, McSHEA, MELOTT, MELOTT, MELOTT, MILLER, MOSKOWITZ, NIKLAS, PATTERSON, PETERS, PETTINI, PLOTNICK, RAUP, RAUP, RAUP, SEPKOSKI, STANLEY, STANLEY, VRBA, VRBA, WILKINSON   +72 more
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LATE PLEISTOCENE LAST OCCURRENCES OF THE NARROW-NOSED RHINOCEROS STEPHANORHINUS HEMITOECHUS (MAMMALIA, PERISSODACTYLA) IN ITALY

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2017
Several taxa belonging to the so called megafauna became extinct during the late Quaternary in Eurasia. The extinction chronology of the narrow-nosed rhinoceros, Stephanorhinus hemitoechus, in Europe is still uncertain and only estimated around 45 ka.
LUCA PANDOLFI, PAOLO BOSCATO, JACOPO CREZZINI, MAURIZIO GATTA, ADRIANA MORONI, MARIO ROLFO, ANTONIO TAGLIACOZZO   +6 more
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Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids [PDF]

, 2013
Adaptive radiations are central to macroevolutionary theory. Whether triggered by acquisition of new traits or ecological opportunities arising from mass extinctions, it is debated whether adaptive radiations are marked by initial expansion of taxic ...
Anderson MJ, Benton MJ, Cox CB, Crompton AW, Fröbisch J, McKinney ML, Smith RMH, Upchurch P   +7 more
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Biological implications of high-energy cosmic ray induced muon flux in the extragalactic shock model

, 2011
A ~ 62 My periodicity in fossil biodiversity has been observed in independent studies of paleontology databases over ~0.5Gy. The period and phase of this biodiversity cycle coincides with the oscillation of our solar system normal to the galactic disk ...
Adrian L. Melott, Alpen, Arens, Atri, Atri, Bailer-Jones, Chen, Cornette, Cucinotta, Dimitra Atri, Ferrari, Feulner, Gies, Groom, Hebbeker, Karam, Kirkby, Lieberman, McNulty, Medvedev, Melott, Melott, Melott, Melott, Melott, O'Brien, Pelliccioni, Rohde, Simonsen, Usoskin   +29 more
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Climate and cultural evolution drove Holocene cropland change in the Huai River Valley, China

iScience
Summary: As an important way of maximizing land productivity by growing more than one crop type in the same field, mixed cropping has been an effective option for sustaining population growth under different climatic conditions since prehistoric period ...
Yanyan Yu, Haibin Wu, Wenchao Zhang, Nicole Boivin, Jie Yu, Juzhong Zhang, Xin Zhou, Wuhong Luo, Chenglong Deng, Junyi Ge, Zhengtang Guo   +10 more
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