This study provides a comprehensive and quantitative estimate of how global temperatures
have changed during the last 540 million years. It combines paleotemperature …

The link between the Permian–Triassic mass extinction (252 million years ago) and the
emplacement of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province (STLIP) was first proposed in …

One great challenge in understanding the history of life is resolving the influence of
environmental change on biodiversity. Simulated annealing and genetic algorithms were …

The spatial coverage and temporal resolution of the Early Paleozoic paleoclimate record are
limited, primarily due to the paucity of well-preserved skeletal material commonly used for …

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 …

The greatest relative changes in marine biodiversity accumulation occurred during the Early
Paleozoic. The precision of temporal constraints on these changes is crude, hampering our …

Astronomical insolation forcing is well established as the underlying metronome of
Quaternary ice ages and Cenozoic climate changes. Yet its effects on earlier eras …

Abstract The Yangtze Sea of the South China Craton experienced strong environmental
perturbations during the first~ 5-6 Myr of the Silurian. The Lower Silurian Lungmachi …

Paleotemperature proxy data form the cornerstone of paleoclimate research and are integral
to understanding the evolution of the Earth system across the Phanerozoic Eon. Here, we …

The end-Ordovician mass extinction (EOME) is widely interpreted as consisting of two
pulses associated with the onset and demise of the Gondwana glaciation, respectively, with …