Abstract The careers of Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and James Dwight Dana (1813–1895)
are intimately linked to circumnavigations of the globe with the British mapping expedition …

Historical processes tens to hundreds of millions of years in the past have shaped not only
the trajectory of life through time but also the distribution and composition of life today …

Ecological ordination can reveal gradients in the species composition of fossil assemblages
that can be correlated with paleoenvironmental gradients. Ordinations of simulated data sets …

When conducting paleocommunity research, a sample size that is too small may lead to
erroneous ecological conclusions, while an increasingly larger sample size will eventually …

In marine settings, quantitative bathymetric models can be developed using various water
depth proxies, including epibiont distribution, sedimentologic features, and the distribution of …

Benthic marine fossil associations have been used in paleontological studies as multivariate
environmental proxies, with particular focus on their utility as water depth estimators. To test …

Abstract Thick (2–10's m) and laterally extensive shell beds are common in the stratigraphic
record, however, relatively little is known about their genesis since no single cause can …

This checklist is a sequel to the one published by A. Myra Keen and Herdis Bentson in 1944
and is an alphabetical listing of California marine Paleogene–Neogene mollusk species or …

In the marine realm, the interpretation of taphofacies relies heavily on how oceanographic
and sedimentary conditions affect the preservation state of fossils. Several taphonomic …

Paleocommunity research efforts have explored a multitude of faunal assemblages using a
wide range of sampling and analytical methods to infer a paleoecological signal. Here, we …