Use of the first appearance datum (FAD) of a fossil to define a global chronostratigraphic
unit's base can lead to intractable correlation and stability problems. FADs are diachronous …

Formal subdivision of the Cambrian System into four series and ten stages is in progress.
The base of Cambrian Stage 3 (provisional), which is conterminous with the base of …

Appearance of metazoans with mineralized skeletons,“explosion” in biotic diversity and
disparity, infaunalization of the substrate, occurrence of metazoan Konservat Fossil …

Knowledge of Cambrian animal anatomy is limited by preservational processes that result in
compaction, size bias, and incompleteness. We documented pristine three-dimensional (3D) …

Data on the first appearances of major animal groups with mineralized skeletons on the
Siberian Platform and worldwide are revised and summarized herein with references to an …

This chapter is a tribute to Jacques Destombes and Solange Willefert, and to the memory of
Henri Hollard, whose names are associated to the deciphering of the Paleozoic stratigraphy …

Volume 2 provides an overview of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic evolution of Central Europe.
This period commenced with the destruction of Pangaea and ended with the formation of the …

Abstract The post-Pan-African evolution of the northern border of the West African Craton is
largely controlled by the remobilisation of Late Neoproterozoic basement faults. The Upper …

An assemblage of mineralised skeletal fossils containing molluscs, hyoliths, halkieriids,
chancelloriids, tommotiids, lobopodians, paleoscolecids, bradoriids, echinoderms …

Recent reconnaissance geological mapping, identification of unconformities and
chronostratigraphic dating of Miaolingian to Ordovician strata in the eastern Alborz …