This article addresses the fundamental difference between coal rank and coal type. While
theoretically settled long ago as being different aspects of coal systems science, the two …

Fluvial landscapes diversified markedly over the 250 million years between the Cambrian
and Pennsylvanian periods. The diversification occurred in tandem with the evolution of …

Abrupt collapse of the tropical rainforest biome (Coal Forests) drove rapid diversification of
Carboniferous tetrapods (amphibians and reptiles) in Euramerica. This finding is based on …

Premise of research. The Late Paleozoic Ice Age was the last extensive pre-Pleistocene ice
age. It includes many climate changes of different intensities, permitting examination of …

This paper reviews global records of anoxic events of the Middle Devonian–earliest
Mississippian, as well as the possible triggers and controls of these events. These “anoxic …

The degree to which Permo-Carboniferous cyclothemic successions archive evidence for
long-term variations in ice volume during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age is insufficiently …

We evaluate the influences of elevation and climate on the spatio-temporal distribution of
wetland and dryland biomes during the Pennsylvanian and early Permian in tropical …

Abstract The Late Mississippian and Pennsylvanian have been referred to as the Coal Age
due to enormous paleotropical peat accumulations (coal beds). Numerous fossil floras have …

The current distributions of widespread groups of terrestrial animals and plants are
supposedly the result of a mixture of either vicariance owing to continental split or more …

The fossil record provides the primary source of data for calibrating the origin of clades.
Although minimum ages of clades are given by the oldest preserved fossil, these …