The Neoselachii are a monophyletic group including all of the extant sharks and rays. They
underwent rapid diversification throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous, going from low …

Mass extinctions have profoundly impacted the evolution of life through not only reducing
taxonomic diversity but also reshaping ecosystems and biogeographic patterns. In …

Hypotheses on the age and possible antiquity of the modern deep-sea fauna put forward to
date almost all agree on the assumption that the deep-sea fauna is largely the result of …

The oldest known Jurassic coral reef is exposed in the Ardèche region of southern France.
This reef site, consisting of at least three reefal bodies, is of early Hettangian age and thus …

Here we describe a new, previously unrecognized elasmobranch microfossil assemblage
consisting of isolated dental material from late Pliensbachian marginal marine, near-shore …

The Jurassic is an important period for understanding the origin of modern fish faunas, since
it saw the first radiation-and in some cases the origin-of most modern groups. In …

Recent work has focused on erecting new Seilacherian ichnofacies for depositional
environments subject to recurring temporal and spatial variations in physico-chemical stress …

The Rhaetian marine transgression, which occurred across Europe in the latest Triassic,
205.5 Ma, famously deposited one or more bone beds. Attention has generally focused on …

A new gobiconodontid from Vallipón (Teruel, Spain) represents the first record of this family
in Europe. The site has a di− verse fossil assemblage mainly composed of isolated bones …

A n extensive exam ination of classical, Anglo-Saxon, M ediaeval and Renaissance records
show s that palae ontological m aterial w as used, som etim es alone and som etim es com …