Most Recent Articles from Paleobiology

• Late Ordovician geographic patterns of extinction compared with simulations of astrophysical ionizing radiation damage 

  Introduction Terrestrial mass extinctions have been attributed to a wide range of causes. Some of them are external to Earth, such as bolide...

  07/01/09 by Melott, Adrian L; Thomas, Brian C · More from publication

• Biomechanics, functional patterns, and disparity in Late Devonian arthrodires 

  Abstract.- Studies of ecological structure and diversity over time in extinct groups have always been challenged by the inability to observe the...

  07/01/09 by Anderson, Philip S L · More from publication

• teeth of the "toothless": novelties and key innovations in the evolution of xenarthrans (Mammalia, Xenarthra), The 

  Abstract.- A combination of historical, functional, and biomechanical constraints has shaped the masticatory apparatus of fossil and extant...

  07/01/09 by Vizcaíno, Sergio F · More from publication

• Foraminiferal diversification during the late Paleozoic ice age 

  Abstract.- A record of late Paleozoic foraminiferal diversity, origination and extinction frequencies, and provincialism at million-year temporal...

  07/01/09 by Groves, John R; Yue, Wang · More from publication

• Stability of regional brachiopod diversity structure across the Mississippian/Pennsylvanian boundary 

  Abstract.- The middle Carboniferous was an interval of global change when the climate was transitioning from greenhouse to icehouse conditions....

  07/01/09 by Heim, Noel A · More from publication

• Directional evolution in the conodont Pterospathodus 

  Abstract.- The excellent fossil record of conodonts represents an ideal, yet underutilized, resource for resolving fundamental issues of pattern...

  07/01/09 by Jones, David · More from publication

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