Palaeontology

This text is designed for students and anyone else with an interest in the history of life on our planet.

This text is designed for students and anyone else with an interest in the history of life on our planet.

The graptolites constitute one of the geologically most useful taxonomic groups of fossils for dating rock successions, understanding paleobiogeography and reconstructing plate tectonic configurations in the Lower Palaeozoic.

PALEOECOLOGY PALEOECOLOGYPast, Present and Future Paleoecology is a discipline that uses evidence from fossils to provide an understanding of ancient environments and the ecological history of life through geological time.

PALEOECOLOGY PALEOECOLOGYPast, Present and Future Paleoecology is a discipline that uses evidence from fossils to provide an understanding of ancient environments and the ecological history of life through geological time.

An up-to-date atlas of an important fossil and living group, with the Natural History Museum.

An up-to-date atlas of an important fossil and living group, with the Natural History Museum.

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week and not only dinosaurs!

Loss of biodiversity is among the greatest problems facing the world today.

Loss of biodiversity is among the greatest problems facing the world today.

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week and not only dinosaurs!

Antelopes constitute a fundamental part of ecosystems throughout Africa and Asia where they act as habitat architects, dispersers of seeds, and prey for large carnivores.

Antelopes constitute a fundamental part of ecosystems throughout Africa and Asia where they act as habitat architects, dispersers of seeds, and prey for large carnivores.

The study of dinosaurs has been experiencing a remarkable renaissance over the past few decades.

The study of dinosaurs has been experiencing a remarkable renaissance over the past few decades.

Strontium and its isotopes provide solutions to important geologic problems and offer clues about seminal events in Earth history.

Strontium and its isotopes provide solutions to important geologic problems and offer clues about seminal events in Earth history.

Demonstrates how Africa''s physical features, savannas and abundant grazers enabled frugivorous apes to become savanna-living hunters.

Highlights the advantages of using the tripartite model within a Bayesian framework for estimation of time calibrated phylogenetic trees.

Highlights the advantages of using the tripartite model within a Bayesian framework for estimation of time calibrated phylogenetic trees.

Demonstrates how Africa''s physical features, savannas and abundant grazers enabled frugivorous apes to become savanna-living hunters.

Extinction of quagga zebras left behind historical records, art, literature, and DNA whose information led to their rebreeding.

Extinction of quagga zebras left behind historical records, art, literature, and DNA whose information led to their rebreeding.

Latest developments in understanding how, when and where the extraordinary body plan and ecology of snakes evolved from lizard ancestors.

Mass extinctions, the fossil record, and whether we can avoid a disastrous human-made mass extinction event.

Mass extinctions, the fossil record, and whether we can avoid a disastrous human-made mass extinction event.

Echinoid taphonomy biases are analyzed and contextualized with new studies and fossil taxa to aid further evolutionary and ecological study.

We introduce chromium isotopes as a tool to track earth''s long-term oxygenation and track deoxygenation during past warming events.

Review of tomographic methods and techniques to visualize and understand fossil echinoderms.

Studying the stereom microstructure of extinct echinoderms can provide us with important paleobiological and paleoecological information.

Morphological studies of Echinoderms with phylogenetic analyses allows for testing of detailed and far-reaching evolutionary hypotheses.

Echinoderm preservation provides a window into the fossil record in which ecological-time processes can be addressed.

Phylogenetic community paleoecology of Upper Ordovician crinoid faunas reveals the timing and magnitude of niche evolution through deep time.

Studying the stereom microstructure of extinct echinoderms can provide us with important paleobiological and paleoecological information.

Morphological studies of Echinoderms with phylogenetic analyses allows for testing of detailed and far-reaching evolutionary hypotheses.

Review of tomographic methods and techniques to visualize and understand fossil echinoderms.

This Element presents guides to applying PCMs with fossil taxa as well as example analayses illustrating common applications.

This Element presents guides to applying PCMs with fossil taxa as well as example analayses illustrating common applications.

Time-lapse film from 1983 and recent digital videography of deep-sea crinoids reveals behaviors in taxa never before seen in life.

Echinoid taphonomy biases are analyzed and contextualized with new studies and fossil taxa to aid further evolutionary and ecological study.

Echinoderm preservation provides a window into the fossil record in which ecological-time processes can be addressed.

Few studies have addressed the predictions in the stratigraphic paleobiology of continental systems.

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Phylogenetic community paleoecology of Upper Ordovician crinoid faunas reveals the timing and magnitude of niche evolution through deep time.

This book explores the underlying forces that have shaped the history and prehistory of the earth and humanity.

This book explores the underlying forces that have shaped the history and prehistory of the earth and humanity.

A concise environmental history of the near-extinction of the bison from the mid-eighteenth century to the present.

This Element considers selenium isotopes as a paleoenvironmental tracers and what we can learn from isotopic fractionations.

This Element considers selenium isotopes as a paleoenvironmental tracers and what we can learn from isotopic fractionations.