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paleobiology
How Mentors and the State Made a Blind Scientist Available to Purchase
ABSTRACT As a blind paleobiologist and evolutionary biologist, I have been fortunate to have had highly supportive parents, teachers, and colleagues, whose qualities and insights I discuss. Curiosity, hard work, a willingness to take risks, and a keen ability to observe and to ask questions are critical attributes.
Behavioural and Environmental Significance of the Rosetted trace Fossil Dactyloidites ottoi (Geinitz, 1849) from the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) of Kachchh, Western India Available to Purchase
Challenges and directions in analytical paleobiology Open Access
CHALLENGES OF CONSERVATION PALEOBIOLOGY: FROM BASELINES TO NOVEL COMMUNITIES TO THE NECESSITY FOR GRANTING RIGHTS TO NATURE Available to Purchase
Temporal scales, sampling designs and age distributions in marine conservation palaeobiology Free
Abstract Conservation palaeobiology informs conservation and restoration of ecosystems by using the fossil record to discriminate between baseline and novel states and to assess ecosystem response to perturbations. Variability in the time-scale of palaeobiological data can generate patterns that either exaggerate or mute the magnitude of biotic changes. We identify two approaches that remedy the challenges associated with the mixing of baseline and post-impact states and with the transformation of the stratigraphic depth to time. First, combining surface death assemblages with both (1) fossil assemblages preserved in the subsurface historical layers and (2) living assemblages can better resolve the nature of ecosystem shifts than within-core surveys or live–dead analyses alone. Second, post-mortem age distributions of skeletal particles and their preservation states are not only informative about stratigraphic resolution and time averaging of death assemblages but also about the timing of changes in abundance of skeletal producers. High abundance of the youngest age cohorts in surface death assemblages is a null expectation of disintegration and burial dynamic. When this dynamic is accounted for, age distributions of benthic invertebrates from Holocene sediments often reveal high volatility, prolonged turn-offs in production or pervasive regime shifts that are obscured in the raw stratigraphic record.
Addressing challenges in marine conservation with fish otoliths and their death assemblages Available to Purchase
Abstract Otolith death assemblages provide a valuable source of biological and ecological information that can help address three main problems in marine conservation: (a) the lack of pre-industrial, pre-human-impact baselines for evaluating change; (b) the inefficiency of survey methods for recording small and cryptic fish species; and (c) the absence of long-term data on environmental change impacts on marine ecosystems and fishes. We review here the current knowledge on the formation and preservation of otoliths and their death assemblages, and the methods to obtain, date and analyse them in order to detect changes in the species traits and ecology, the fish population structure and the palaeoceanographic shifts that drove them.
Ordovician plate tectonic and palaeogeographical maps Available to Purchase
Abstract Plate tectonic and palaeogeographical maps are presented for nine time intervals during the Ordovician: early Tremadocian (485 Ma), late Tremadocian (480 Ma), early Floian (475 Ma), earliest Dapingian (470 Ma), early Darriwilian (465 Ma), late Darriwilian (460 Ma), middle Sandbian (455 Ma), middle Katian (450 Ma) and early Hirnantian (445 Ma). A plate model was used to predict the changing age of the ocean floor and, hence, the changing volume of the ocean basins and the resulting degree of continental flooding. The maps show the locations of active plate boundaries (i.e. subduction zones, mid-ocean rifts, transform faults, island arcs, back-arc basins and collision zones) and the age of the ocean floor. During the Ordovician there were six continental plates (Gondwana, Laurentia, Baltica, Cathaysia, Avalonia and Cuyania) and six oceanic plates (Iapetus, Ran, Kipchak, and Panthallasa 1, 2 and 3), as well as several poorly constrained back-arc basins (Zealandia, Alexander and Farwell). The palaeogeographical maps also illustrate the ancient distribution of mountains, land, shallow seas and deep ocean basins. Sea level was high during the Early Ordovician, fell during the middle Ordovician and rose again during the Late Ordovician. A precipitous fall in sea level occurred at the end of the Ordovician due to the short-lived Hirnantian Ice Age.
Changing palaeobiogeography during the Ordovician Period Available to Purchase
Abstract Owing to the increasing availability of data for many fossil groups and a generally accepted palaeogeographical configuration, palaeontologists have been able to develop progressively more robust palaeobiogeographical scenarios for the spatial distributions of Ordovician marine faunas. However, most research in Early Paleozoic palaeobiogeography centres on data derived from extensively studied localities in North America and Europe. Thus, clear patterns are emerging of regional biogeography for these areas. However, the fragmentary nature of data from other regions hinders the development of a detailed understanding of palaeogeographical schemes of many clades at the global level. Provincial patterns are now available for several fossil groups, but the global coverage remains generally fragmentary. Palaeobiogeographical investigations were traditionally focused on better understanding of palaeogeographical scenarios and often employed quantitative analyses of faunal similarity. More recently palaeobiogeographical analyses have expanded to investigate questions such as the location and pace of speciation and macroevolution together with macroecological change. For example, studies on the evolution of speciation levels in the frame of the taxonomic radiation of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification are now available. Future investigations, including modelling, will provide more integrative, global patterns of provincialism, including the location of Ordovician biodiversity hotspots and the recognition of latitudinal diversity gradients.
The Ordovician ocean circulation: a modern synthesis based on data and models Available to Purchase
Abstract Surface currents constitute an efficient transport agent for (larvae of) marine faunas, while the circulation of water masses in the ocean interior drives nutrient redistribution, ventilates the ocean and contributes to shaping surface biological productivity and the benthic redox landscape. Therefore, a robust understanding of ocean circulation, both shallow and deep, and of its response to climate change, is required to interpret palaeobiogeographic signals, biological productivity patterns and biodiversity trends. This is especially critical during periods of dynamic biological change, such as the Ordovician. Yet, oceanic circulation patterns leave no direct evidence in the geological record and can therefore be reconstructed solely based on indirect indicators, such as the distribution of faunas and geochemical proxies. General circulation models offer independent, physically robust insights onto the coupling between climate change and ocean circulation. Integrated approaches based on the assimilation of geological data in numerical models thus constitute a promising way forward. We here provide a literature review and updated synthesis of the current understanding of the Ordovician ocean circulation, based on data and models.
The Las Hoyas Lagerstätte: a palaeontological view of an Early Cretaceous wetland Available to Purchase
Absence of Belemnites in the Post-Cenomanian Marine Successions of Cauvery Basin, India: Role of Sea Level, Paleogeography, and Belemnite Paleoecology Available to Purchase
Macrostratigraphy of the Ediacaran System in North America Open Access
ABSTRACT Ediacaran sediments record the termination of Cryogenian “snowball Earth” glaciations, preserve the first occurrences of macroscopic metazoans, and contain one of the largest known negative δ 13 C excursions (the Shuram-Wonoka). The rock record for the transition between the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic in North America is also physically distinct, with much of the continent characterized by a wide variety of mostly crystalline Proterozoic and Archean rocks overlain by Lower Paleozoic shallow-marine sediments. Here, we present quantitative macrostratigraphic summaries of rock quantity and type using a new comprehensive compilation of Ediacaran geological successions in North America. In keeping with previous results that have identified early Paleozoic burial of the “Great Unconformity” as a major transition in the rock record, we find that the Ediacaran System has greatly reduced areal extent and volume in comparison to the Cambrian and most younger Phanerozoic systems. The closest quantitative analogue to the Ediacaran System in North America is the Permian–Triassic interval, deposited during the culminating assembly and early rifting phases of the supercontinent Pangea. The Shuram-Wonoka carbon isotope excursion occurs against the backdrop of the largest increase in carbonate and total rock volume observed in the Ediacaran. The putatively global Gaskiers glaciation (ca. 580–579 Ma), by contrast, has little quantitative expression in these data. Although the importance of Ediacaran time is often framed in the context of glaciation, biological evolution, and geochemical perturbations, the quantitative expressions of rock area, volume, and lithology in the geologic record clearly demark the late Ediacaran to early Cambrian as the most dramatic transition in at least the past 635 m.y. The extent to which the timing and nature of this transition are reflected globally remains to be determined, but we hypothesize that the large expansion in the extent and volume of sedimentation within the Ediacaran, particularly among carbonates, and again from the Ediacaran to the Cambrian, documented here over ~17% of Earth’s present-day continental area, provides important insights into the drivers of biogeochemical and biological evolution at the dawn of animal life.
Innovatiocaris , a complete radiodont from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte and its implications for the phylogeny of Radiodonta Available to Purchase
The morphologic and paleobiogeographic implications of a new early Silurian echinoid from Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada Available to Purchase
A multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing the history of early animal life on Earth Open Access
Biomarkers: Molecular Tools to Study Life, Environment, and Climate Available to Purchase
Contributions of Genomics to Lipid Biomarker Research: From Paleoclimatology to Evolution Available to Purchase
Future Outlook for Applications of Biomarkers and Isotopes in Organic Geochemistry Available to Purchase
Ediacaran survivors in the Cambrian: suspicions, denials and a smoking gun Open Access
“Extreme dinosaurs” and the continuing evolution of dinosaur paleoart Available to Purchase
ABSTRACT Humans have made visual representations of what they think dinosaurs looked like since before the term and concept of “dinosaur” were first published in 1842. Over the next 175 years, these images have varied widely. The current era of dinosaur paleobiology began in the late 1960s and emphasized scientific and artistic conceptions of dinosaurs as more active and diverse in their metabolism, ecology, and behavior than previously thought. Over the past 25 years in particular, the rise of computer-generated images and the discovery of spectacularly preserved fossils from the Early Cretaceous of China and elsewhere have further revolutionized our understanding of the biology and external appearance (especially integument) of dinosaurs. Yet despite these innovations, dinosaur paleoart is still fundamentally shaped by the same basic set of influences that affected previous, now-discarded, images. These include (1) the fossils; (2) debates about which modern animals are the best bases for uniformitarian comparison with extinct taxa; (3) extrapolation (i.e., how far can we go from the known to the unknown); (4) the enabling effects of new artistic techniques; and (5) the ever-present pressures of the marketplace.