The Cambrian, characterized by the global appearance of diverse biomineralized
metazoans in the fossil record for the first time, represents a pivotal point in the history of life …

Ideally this book should serve as the basis for a course for it resulted from many years of
teaching paleontology. I hope that it will not just communicate knowledge, but skill, in terms …

Cruziana, Gordia, Planolites, Rusophycus, and Trichophycus are common ichnological
elements of the Kaili Biota. New discoveries based on the examination of 323 specimens …

The concept of sclerobiofacies is defined herein as suites of sclerobiont encrusters and
endiont borers (collectively sclerobionts) preserved on skeletons that characterize particular …

New echinoderm holdfast discoveries from Gondwana demonstrate that pelmatozoans have
been cementers able to attach to carbonate firmgrounds since the basal middle Cambrian …

Plusieurs Lagerstätten à échinodermes ont été découverts au cours des dix dernières
années dans l'Ordovicien supérieur de l'Anti-Atlas oriental (Tafilalt occidental, Maroc). Ces …

A Middle Cambrian (Series 3, Stage 5) echinoderm assemblage is described from the
uppermost part of the Henson Gletscher Formation based on disarticulated material. This …

Three gogiid eocrinoids, numbering in the thousands of specimens, are well known from the
lower Cambrian (Stage 4) Balang Formation (Guizhoueocrinus yui) and basal middle …

A new edrioblastoid Cambroblastus guolensis is described from the Furongian (late
Cambrian) Sandu Formation (South China). This represents the second occurrence of a …

During the Palaeozoic, pelmatozoan echinoderms were substantially more diverse than they
are in modern oceans; however, the taphonomy and ontogeny of many of these extinct …