The region with the highest marine biodiversity on our planet is known as the Coral Triangle
or Indo-Australian Archipelago (IAA),. Its enormous biodiversity has long attracted the …

Understanding deep-time marine biodiversity change under the combined effects of climate
and connectivity changes is fundamental for predicting the impacts of modern climate …

Warmer temperatures and higher sea level than today characterized the Last Interglacial
interval [Pleistocene, 128 to 116 thousand years ago (ka)]. This period is a remarkable deep …

The microfossil record contains abundant, diverse, and well‐preserved fossils spanning
multiple trophic levels from primary producers to apex predators. In addition, microfossils …

The geological record of marine animal biodiversity reflects the interplay between changing
rates of speciation versus extinction. Compared to mass extinctions, background extinctions …

Conservation palaeobiology informs conservation and restoration of ecosystems by using
the fossil record to discriminate between baseline and novel states and to assess ecosystem …

Fig. 1. Past and present equatorial northwestern Atlantic ecosystems, factors that could affect
them, and their latitudinal patterns. Left panel summarizes the concept that biodiversity …

In palaeontological studies, groups with consistent ecological and morphological traits
across a clade's history (functional groups) afford different perspectives on biodiversity …

Only three species of alveolinoidean larger foraminifera occur in present-day tropical
shallow-water marine settings. Alveolinella quoyi thrives in the Central Indo-Pacific and …

The seminal work of Sepkoski et al.(1, 2) constituted a milestone in the quantitative
reconstruction of marine (invertebrate) biodiversity over the Phanerozoic (past 541 Ma) …