During the mid-Palaeozoic, vascular land plants (ie, tracheophytes) underwent a great
radiation that triggered the development of the land biosphere–the so-called Silurian …

The oxygen isotope compositions of carbonate and phosphatic fossils hold the key to
understanding Earth-system evolution during the last 500 million years. Unfortunately, the …

Abstract The Cambrian 'Explosion', located by many authors between 540 and 520 million
years ago (Ma), is considered to be an abrupt appearance in the fossil record of most animal …

Global cooling has been proposed as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification
Event, the largest radiation of Phanerozoic marine animal Life. Yet, mechanistic …

Abstract The Ordovician of Scandinavia (ie Denmark, Norway and Sweden) has been
investigated for over two centuries and, through time, various chronostratigraphic schemes …

Today, warm-water coral reefs are limited to tropical-to-subtropical latitudes. These diverse
ecosystems extended further poleward in the geological past, but the mechanisms driving …

Much of our view on Mesozoic dinosaur diversity is obscured by biases in the fossil record.
In particular, spatiotemporal sampling heterogeneity affects identification of the timing and …

The Ordovician global cooling trend observed by several temperature proxies, which
coincides with one of the most significant evolutionary diversifications on Earth, is yet to be …

Whereas living representatives of Pseudosuchia, crocodylians, number fewer than 30
species, more than 700 pseudosuchian species are known from their 250-million-year fossil …

Palaeontologists have long sought to explain the diversification of individual clades to whole
biotas at global scales. Advances in our understanding of the spatial distribution of the fossil …