Continental depositional environments preserve the majority of the macrofloral record since
the advent of land-plant colonization in the mid-Paleozoic, and wetland representatives are …

Taphonomy plays diverse roles in paleobiology. These include assessing sample quality
relevant to ecologic, biogeographic, and evolutionary questions, diagnosing the roles of …

The fossil record of wetlands documents unique and long-persistent floras and faunas with
wetland habitats spawning or at least preserving novel evolutionary characteristics and, at …

The Triassic successions of the Colorado Plateau preserve an important record of vertebrate
evolution and climate change, but correlations to a global Triassic framework are hampered …

The Triassic period is generally viewed as the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs. For
paleontologists, however, it also marks the rise of the world's first modern land ecosystems …

A major unsolved geodynamic problem is the Permian Pangea plate configuration at the
end of Paleozoic era (around 255Ma). While consensual geology indicates a plate …

Sequence stratigraphic analysis of Pennsylvanian coal-bearing strata suggests that glacial-
interglacial fluctuations at high latitudes drove cyclic changes in tropical biomes. A literature …

Pennsylvanian glacioeustatic cyclothems exposed in Kansas and adjacent areas provide a
unique opportunity to test models of the impact of relative sea level and climate on stratal …

The terrestrial crisis that reportedly parallels the P/Tr marine mass extinction is based mainly
on Northern Hemisphere microfloral assemblages and Southern Hemisphere Gondwanan …

High-precision geochronology provides unprecedented insights into the depositional history
of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of the Colorado Plateau, as well as its …