Temporal dynamics of Devonian reef communities: Insights into natural phase shifts and long-term resilience in the face of environmental variability

A Godbold, N Clark, ET Cunningham, DJ Bottjer… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Living coral cover is rapidly decreasing due to global climate change and local human
impacts. Response to the ongoing transformation of coral reefs requires a deep …

Editorial preface to special issue: Paleoecology and evolution of Paleozoic corals and reef ecosystems

K Liang, MK Zapalski, L Yao, DJ Bottjer - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paleozoic Era was an interval of profound changes in metazoan reef
ecosystems, which became magnificent in scale and diversity, owing to the evolution of …

[PDF][PDF] A new species of Mucophyllum rugose coral encrusted by bryozoans, tentaculoid tubeworms, and tabulates from the upper Silurian of Saaremaa, Estonia

ES Kazantseva, AV Koromyslova… - Neues Jahrbuch für …, 2024 - researchgate.net
Mucophyllum toomae KAZANTSEVA sp. nov. is characterized by a large broad calice with a
small flat floor, numerous thick septa, and lack of dissepiments. An unusual type of syn vivo …

[HTML][HTML] First Evidence of Reproductive Strategies in Cephalopods Preserved in Phosphate and Siderite Nodules from the Devonian of Uruguay

G Piñeiro, M Rodao, P Núñez Demarco - Fossil Studies, 2024 - mdpi.com
Uruguayan ammonoids are preserved in phosphate and siderite nodules found at the
basalmost tillite-like conglomerates of the San Gregorio Formation. This lithostratigraphic …

Skeletobiosis on favositid corals: a case study from the Middle Devonian of the Mader Basin, Morocco

M Zatoń, R Nawrot, JJ Król, MK Zapalski… - Acta Geologica …, 2024 - journals.pan.pl
Tabulate corals of the genus Favosites Lamarck, 1816 from the Middle Devonian of Madène
el Mrakib (eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco) were qualitatively and quantitatively studied with …

Questionable suitability of pure geological publications to distant inventory of world-class palaeogeographical geosites

DA Ruban - Discover Geoscience, 2024 - Springer
Present acceleration of interest in geoheritage makes urgent a very large inventory of
geosites in all parts of the world, which task cannot be achieved by only …

Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late Devonian to present

JS Llewelyn, JA Long, R Cloutier, AM Clement… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The diversity and distribution of traits in an ecological community determine how it functions.
Modern fish communities conserve trait space across similar habitats. However, little is …

[引用][C] Discover Geoscience

DA Ruban, ES Sallam - 2024