Estuarine habitats, and the fish assemblages associated with them, are potentially impacted
upon by many anthropogenic influences which can have a direct influence on the food …

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 …

Fishes include more than half of all living animals with backbones, but large‐scale
palaeobiological patterns in this assemblage have not received the same attention as those …

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 …

Charting the broad patterns of vascular plant evolution for Gondwana againstthe major
global environmental shifts and events is attempted here for the first time. This is based on …

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 …

Lycophytes, comprising the groups historically known as the lycopsids and zosterophylls,
have the longest history of any group of vascular land plants. The early evolution of the …

A new member of the Tristichopteridae (= Eusthenopteridae), Mandageria fairfaxi gen. et sp.
nov., is described from the Late Devonian (Famennian) Mandagery Sandstone outcropping …

Until now, all known fossils of tetrapods (limbed vertebrates with digits) and near-tetrapods
(such as Elpistostege, Tiktaalik, and Panderichthys) from the Devonian period have come …

The Phanerozoic has witnessed major changes, with Africa being an integral part of
supercontinental landmass agglomeration forming Gondwana, its amalgamation with …