Several past attempts to model the variation in atmospheric oxygen through the Paleozoic
give generally conflicting results, but all agree that pO 2 rose to a peak in the late Paleozoic …

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 invasion of the land was a complex, protracted process, punctuated by mass extinctions,
that involved multiple routes from marine environments. We integrate paleobiology …

Scotland's Earth resources, which include minerals, hydrocarbons, water and hydro energy,
have for many centuries provided a driver for population and economic growth. The nature …

Rugose corals are one of the major fossil groups in shallow-water environments. They
played an important role in dividing and correlating Carboniferous strata during the last …

Actinopterygii makes up half of living vertebrate diversity, and study of fossil members during
their Palaeozoic rise to dominance has a long history of descriptive work. Although research …

A new genus and species of Devonian tetrapod, Brittagnathus minutus gen. et sp. nov., is
described from a single complete right lower jaw ramus recovered from the Acanthostega …

Here we describe the postcranial skeleton and present the first full-body reconstruction of
the early tetrapod Whatcheeria deltae from the Viséan of Iowa. The skeletal proportions …

Tetrapod (amphibian and amniote) fossils of Carboniferous age are known almost
exclusively from the southern part of a palaeoequatorial Euramerican province. The …

Until recently the immediate aftermath of the Hangenberg event of the Famennian Stage
(Upper Devonian) was considered to have decimated sarcopterygian groups, including …