There has been an intense focus on the response of species to environmental changes, and
more recently, the interactions of species have been examined in a similar way in order to …

Abstract The Dicynodon Assemblage Zone (DiAZ) of South Africa's Karoo Basin is one of the
eight biostratigraphic zones of the Beaufort Group. It spans the uppermost Permian strata …

Studies of the effects of mass extinctions on ancient ecosystems have focused on changes
in taxic diversity, morphological disparity, abundance, behaviour and resource availability as …

To discern the effect of the end-Permian (P-Tr) ecological crisis on land, interactions
between plants and their insect herbivores were examined for four time intervals containing …

The Triassic, lasting from 252 to 201 million years (Myr) ago, was crucial in the origin of
modern ecosystems. It is the seventh of the 11 geological systems or periods into which the …

Vertebrate trace fossils often provide a measure of cryptic biodiversity, and are especially
pertinent when skeletal remnants are exceptionally rare. The Lower Triassic (lower …

Evolutionary paleoecologists have proposed many explanations for Phanerozoic trends in
ecospace utilization, including escalation, seafood through time, filling of an empty …

Unlike modern mammalian communities, terrestrial Paleozoic and Mesozoic vertebrate
systems were characterized by carnivore faunas that were as diverse as their herbivore …