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 …

A 365-million-year-old freshwater community reveals morphological and ecological stasis in branchiopod crustaceans

P Gueriau, N Rabet, G Clement, L Lagebro, J Vannier… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
Branchiopod crustaceans are represented by fairy, tadpole, and clam shrimps (Anostraca,
Notostraca, Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata), which typically inhabit temporary freshwater …

The oldest peracarid crustacean reveals a Late Devonian freshwater colonization by isopod relatives

N Robin, P Gueriau, J Luque, D Jarvis… - Biology …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Peracarida (eg woodlice and side-swimmers) are, together with their sister-group Eucarida
(eg krill and decapods), the most speciose group of modern crustaceans, suggested to have …

The Strud crustacean fauna (Late Devonian, Belgium): updated review and palaeoecology of an early continental ecosystem

P Gueriau, N Rabet, EDT Hat - … Transactions of the Royal Society of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Arthropods were the first known animals to colonise land habitats, with myriapods and
arachnids having done so at least by the Silurian. Much later, several lineages of …

New discoveries of tetrapods (ichthyostegid‐like and whatcheeriid‐like) in the Famennian (Late Devonian) localities of Strud and Becco (Belgium)

S Olive, PE Ahlberg, VN Pernègre, É Poty… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The origin of tetrapods is one of the key events in vertebrate history. The oldest tetrapod
body fossils are Late Devonian (Frasnian–Famennian) in age, most of them consisting of …

Characterization of the placoderm (Gnathostomata) assemblage from the tetrapod‐bearing locality of Strud (Belgium, upper Famennian)

S Olive, G Clément, EB Daeschler, V Dupret - Palaeontology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The placoderm fauna of the late Famennian tetrapod‐bearing locality of Strud, Belgium, is
studied on the basis of historical and newly collected material. It includes the previously …

Early Mississippian sandy siltstones preserve rare vertebrate fossils in seasonal flooding episodes

CE Bennett, TI Kearsey, SJ Davies, D Millward… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Flood‐generated sandy siltstones are under‐recognised deposits that preserve key
vertebrate (actinopterygians, rhizodonts, and rarer lungfish, chondrichthyans and tetrapods) …

Placoderm assemblage from the tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud (Belgium, Upper Famennian) provides evidence for a fish nursery

S Olive, G Clément, EB Daeschler, V Dupret - Plos One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The placoderm fauna of the upper Famennian tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud, Belgium,
includes the antiarch Grossilepis rikiki, the arthrodire groenlandaspidid Turrisaspis …

Vertebrate predation in the Late Devonian evidenced by bite traces and regurgitations: implications within an early tetrapod freshwater ecosystem

N Robin, F Noirit, M Chevrinais… - Papers in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The terrestrialization process by vertebrates occurred during the Devonian period, with fully
land‐dwelling tetrapods recorded in the Carboniferous. Thus, the Late Devonian is an …

“Gyracanthus” sherwoodi (Gnathostomata, Gyracanthidae) from the Late Devonian of North America

D Snyder, S Turner, CJ Burrow… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - BioOne
New fossils of “Gyracanthus” sherwoodi are described primarily from the Late Devonian Red
Hill site and Metzger's Quarry (Catskill Formation, late Famennian) of Clinton and Sullivan …