Late Cretaceous ammonoids show that drivers of diversification are regionally heterogeneous

JT Flannery-Sutherland, CD Crossan, CE Myers… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Palaeontologists have long sought to explain the diversification of individual clades to whole
biotas at global scales. Advances in our understanding of the spatial distribution of the fossil …

A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen

SGA Flantua, O Mottl, VA Felde… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Palaeoecological data are crucial for comprehending large‐scale biodiversity patterns
and the natural and anthropogenic drivers that influence them over time. Over the last …

[HTML][HTML] Approaches to pollen taxonomic harmonisation in Quaternary palynology

HJB Birks, KP Bhatta, VA Felde, SGA Flantua… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pollen taxonomic harmonisation involves the standardisation of the nomenclature of pollen
and fern spores with similar morphotypes at the determination level that is common to all …

Advancing terrestrial ecology by improving cross-temporal research and collaboration

L Azevedo-Schmidt, M Landrum, MM Spoth… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Ecology spans spatial and temporal scales and is inclusive of the history of life on Earth.
However, research that occurs at millennial timescales or longer has historically been …

Paleoclimatic reconstruction based on the late Pleistocene San Josecito cave stratum 720 fauna using fossil mammals, reptiles, and birds

JA Cruz, JA Velasco, J Arroyo-Cabrales, E Johnson - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Advances in technology have equipped paleobiologists with new analytical tools to assess
the fossil record. The functional traits of vertebrates have been used to infer …

[HTML][HTML] Quo Vadis, Paleontology?

D Erwin - Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in …, 2024 - journals.publishing.umich.edu
Studies of the history of life provide an interesting case study of how the questions scientists
can ask, and from which they expect reliable answers, change over time. Some of these …

Contribution to the knowledge of the false click beetles from the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Coleoptera, Eucnemidae), with description of a new species and a …

Y Hsiao, RL Otto - PalZ, 2024 - Springer
A new false click beetle species of Cenomana Otto, 2019 embedded in mid‐Cretaceous
(Cenomanian, ca. 99 Ma) amber of Myanmar is described: C. annieae sp. nov.; this new …

Ten simple rules to bridge ecology and palaeoecology by publishing outside palaeoecological journals

N Schafstall, X Benito, SO Brugger… - PLoS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Owing to its specialised methodology, palaeoecology is often regarded as a separate field
from ecology, even though it is essential for understanding long-term ecological processes …

Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model

EM Dillon, C Pimiento - Paleobiology, 2024 - cambridge.org
Humans have dramatically transformed ecosystems over the previous millennia and are
potentially causing a mass extinction event comparable to the others that shaped the history …

Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic

L Schnetz, EM Dunne, I Feichtinger, RJ Butler… - Paleobiology, 2024 - cambridge.org
The Paleozoic represents a key time interval in the origins and early diversification of
chondrichthyans (cartilaginous fishes), but their diversity and macroevolution are largely …