[HTML][HTML] Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman… - 2015 - palaeo-electronica.org
Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

Estuarine fish and tetrapod evolution: insights from a Late Devonian (Famennian) Gondwanan estuarine lake and a southern African Holocene equivalent

RW Gess, AK Whitfield - Biological Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Waterloo Farm lagerstätte in South Africa provides a uniquely well‐
preserved record of a Latest Devonian estuarine ecosystem. Ecological evidence from it is …

The palaeozoic, mesozoic and early cenozoic fishes of Africa

AM Murray - Fish and Fisheries, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Africa has provided many fossil fishes from sediments laid down over a 400 million year
period. The large array of fossil fishes come from diverse localities throughout the continent …

A NEW RECONSTRUCTION OF ONYCHOSELACHE TRAQUAIRI, COMMENTS ON EARLY CHONDRICHTHYAN PECTORAL GIRDLES AND HYBODONTIFORM …

MI Coates, RW Gess - Palaeontology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A new, third, specimen of Onychoselache traquairi from the Viséan (Holkerian) of Scotland
allows a significant revision of the anatomy of this stem‐group elasmobranch. This first …

New morphological information on, and species of placoderm fish Africanaspis (Arthrodira, Placodermi) from the Late Devonian of South Africa

RW Gess, KM Trinajstic - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Here we present a new species of placoderm fish, Africanaspis edmountaini sp. nov., and
redescribe Africanaspis doryssa on the basis of new material collected from the type locality …

High-latitude chondrichthyans from the Late Devonian (Famennian) Witpoort Formation of South Africa

RW Gess, MI Coates - Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 2015 - Springer
New material from the Late Devonian Witpoort Formation (Witteberg Group, Cape
Supergroup) of Waterloo Farm (Grahamstown, South Africa) includes teeth, spines, and rare …

Devonian (Emsian-Eifelian) fish from the Lower Bokkeveld Group (Ceres Subgroup), South Africa

ME Anderson, JE Almond, FJ Evans, JA Long - Journal of African Earth …, 1999 - Elsevier
Four major groups of fish are represented by fragmentary remains from South Africa's Lower
Bokkeveld Group of Early to Middle Devonian age: the Acanthodii, Chondrichthyes …

Pectoral anatomy of Tribodus limae (Elasmobranchii: Hybodontiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil

JA Lane, JG Maisey - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
New, undescribed material of the hybodont shark Tribodus limae, from the Lower
Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil, provides new information on the pectoral endoskeleton in …

Vertebrate Biostratigraphy of the Witteberg Group and the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary in South Africa

RW Gess - Origin and evolution of the Cape Mountains and Karoo …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Witteberg Group rocks are Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous in age.
Comparison with Laurasian sea-level curves has correlated the earliest Carboniferous …

[PDF][PDF] Comparison of an Early Devonian acanthodian and putative chondrichthyan assemblage using both isolated and articulated remains from the Mackenzie …

GF Hanke - 2001 - era.library.ualberta.ca
Northwest Territories, Canada, provide a unique perspective on early jawed fish
morphology. Three of the putative chondrichthyans were previously known from only …