Recently added articles from Paleobiology:
Relative taxonomic and ecologic stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis
Oct 01, 2009; ... Abstract.-The concept of coordinated stasis, manifest as a pattern of long intervals of concurrent taxonomic and ecologic persistence separated by comparatively abrupt periods of biotic change, has been challenged in recent studies that claim a lack of prolonged persistence of taxa and ...
Latitudinal selectivity of foraminifer extinctions during the late Guadalupian crisis
Oct 01, 2009; ... Abstract.-A global database of middle-upper Permian foraminiferal genera has been compiled from the literature for 75 Guadalupian and 62 Lopingian localities, grouped into 32 and 19 operational geographical units respectively. Cluster analysis reveals that five distinct Guadalupian provinces ...
Patchiness and long-term change in early Eocene insect feeding damage
Oct 01, 2009; ... Abstract.-Many studies have examined temporal changes in insect feeding on angiosperm leaves, but none have considered variability within a single stratigraphic level. If spatial variability within a level is high, a single sample will not adequately represent the level and may either mask true ...
Using ecological niche modeling for quantitative biogeographic analysis: a case study of Miocene and Pliocene Equinae in the Great Plains
Oct 01, 2009; ... Abstract.-The subfamily Equinae in the Great Plains region of North America underwent a dramatic radiation and subsequent decline as climate changed from warm and humid in the middle Miocene to cooler and more arid conditions during the late Miocene. Here we use ecological niche modeling (ENM), ...
Phanerozoic trends in the global geographic disparity of marine biotas
Oct 01, 2009; ... Abstract.-Previous analyses of the history of Phanerozoic marine biodiversity suggested that the post-Paleozoic increase observed at the family level and below was caused, in part, by an increase in global provinciality associated with the breakup of Pangea. Efforts to characterize the ...