Population dynamics of shoreface to upper offshore occupation of the lower Ordovician brachiopod Tarfaya purmamarcaensis (Benedetto)

DF Muñoz, A Bignon, JL Benedetto - Geobios, 2023 - Elsevier
Occupation of shallow environments by rhynchonelliform brachiopods is rare during the
early late Tremadocian (Tr2). However, in the NW Argentina basin the plectorthoidean …

Do brachiopods show substrate‐related phenotypic variation? A case study from the Burgess Shale

TP Topper, LC Strotz, CB Skovsted, LE Holmer - Palaeontology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
As sessile, benthic filter feeders, brachiopods share an intimate relationship with their
chosen substrate. Individuals of Micromitra burgessensis in the Burgess Shale Formation …

A three‐dimensional geometric morphometric study of the development of sulcus versus shell outline in Permian neospiriferine brachiopods

S Lee, J Jung, GR Shi - Lethaia, 2018 - idunn.no
The morphological variation of the sulcal development and shell outline in large Permian
neospiriferine brachiopods including Fasciculatia Waterhouse, 2004 is investigated using …

Mapping sclerobiosis: a new method for interpreting the distribution, biological implications, and paleoenvironmental significance of sclerobionts on biotic hosts

KM Barclay, CL Schneider, LR Leighton - Paleobiology, 2015 - cambridge.org
The use of sclerobiosis as a tool for paleoenvironmental and paleoecological research is
undermined by a lack of comparable methods for sclerobiont data collection and analysis …

Quantifying shell outline variability in extant and fossil Laqueus (Brachiopoda: Terebratulida): are outlines good proxies for long-looped brachidial morphology and …

NL Carranza, SJ Carlson - Paleobiology, 2021 - cambridge.org
Extant and extinct terebratulide brachiopod species have been defined primarily on the
basis of morphology. What is the fidelity of morphological species to biological species? And …

Arsenic contamination: unavoidable natural phenomenon or an anthropogenic crisis

R Bose, A De - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences …, 2013 - Springer
Arsenic contamination of drinking water has transcended geographic boundaries and
degenerated into a global socio-economic menace. The major countries affected are …

Quantitative evaluation reveals taxonomic over-splitting in extinct marine invertebrates: implications in conserving biodiversity

R Bose, A De - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences …, 2013 - Springer
Till date, morphology in general was characterized qualitatively to support the traditional
classification system. This study for the first time uses an integrated approach to explore the …

The brachiopod genus Composita in the Carboniferous successions from Rod El-Hamal area, Wadi Araba, north Eastern Desert, Egypt: A revision based on …

Y Salama, AA Mahmoud, JS Ajarem, AA Allam… - Historical …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study provides quantitative and qualitative analyses for the brachiopod shells of the
Genus Composita. For this study, 75 brachiopod specimens were collected from the Late …

Testing species assignments in extant terebratulide brachiopods: a three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis of long-looped brachidia

N López Carranza, SJ Carlson - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Species of terebratulide brachiopods have been largely characterized qualitatively on the
basis of morphology. Furthermore, species-level morphological variability has rarely been …

Breaking the mold: using biomechanical experiments to assess the life orientation of dorsibiconvex brachiopods

KM Barclay, CL Schneider, LR Leighton - Paleobiology, 2015 - cambridge.org
Understanding the life orientation of fossil organisms, such as brachiopods, is not only
important for understanding the biology of the organism in question, but it also can be used …