Paleontology has provided invaluable basic knowledge on the history of life on Earth. The
discipline can also provide substantial knowledge to societal challenges such as climate …

Hot (geothermal) pools and streams, a specific type of aquatic biotopes having almost
worldwide distribution, maintain rich faunas of animals belonging to various taxa. Snails …

Belemnites were a type of cephalopod abundant in the Jurassic and Cretaceous, whose
fossils have been extensively used for paleo-oceanographic studies. For this study, we …

The body size of marine ectotherms is often negatively correlated with ambient water
temperature, as seen in many clades during the hyperthermal crisis of the end‐Permian …

Abstract Marine sequences on Wollaston Forland, North‐East Greenland have provided rich
belemnite assemblages of Barremian (Early Cretaceous) age. Most common are belemnites …

Belemnite rostra are very abundant in Mesozoic marine deposits in many regions. Despite
this abundance, soft-tissue specimens of belemnites informing about anatomy and …

Morphological complexity reflects the biological structure of an organism and is closely
linked to its associated functions and phylogenetics. In animals with shells, ornamentation is …

Here we study the variation of the Paleozoic to Mesozoic ammonoid whorl profile shape
(WPS, in previous contributions referred as the whorl cross-section shape) employing a …

Fossils of Devonian ammonoids are abundant and well-preserved in the Anti-Atlas of
Morocco; as such they provide an invaluable record of regional morphological disparity …

Abstract The second-order Pliensbachian–Toarcian crisis affected major groups of marine
organisms. While its impact has been intensively studied for ammonites, the response of …