Trace fossils as proxy for biotic recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction: A critical review

M Luo, GR Shi, LA Buatois, ZQ Chen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Trace fossils represent records of the activity of both epifaunal and infaunal animals,
providing significant information for a deeper understanding of Earth's past environments …

Simple sequence repeats drive genome plasticity and promote adaptive evolution in penaeid shrimp

J Yuan, X Zhang, M Wang, Y Sun, C Liu, S Li… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are rare (approximately 1%) in most genomes and are
generally considered to have no function. However, penaeid shrimp genomes have a high …

Unusual shallow marine matground-adapted benthic biofacies from the Lower Triassic of the northern Paleotethys: Implications for biotic recovery following the end …

X Feng, ZQ Chen, DJ Bottjer, S Wu, L Zhao, Y Xu… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
We report two shallow marine, ichnofauna-bivalve-microbial mat biofacies from the Lower
Triassic ** Biota, Yunnan Province, China: Implications for Architecture of Conodont …
J Huang, C Martínez-Pérez, Q Zhang, K Zhang… - Journal of Earth …, 2023 - Springer
Articulated natural assemblages contain direct evidence of the element numbers,
morphologies, positions and structures for reconstructing the feeding apparatuses of …

High productivity promoted exceptional fossil preservation of the early Middle Triassic Luo** biota of Yunnan Province, China

Z Ma, S Hu, H Wu, X Liu, C Zhou, W Wen… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The early Middle Triassic (Anisian) Luo** biota is representative of marine
ecosystems following their full recovery after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction; however …

Arumberia and other Ediacaran–Cambrian fossils of central Australia

GJ Retallack, AP Broz - Historical Biology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Problematic fossils are described from Late Ediacaran to Early Cambrian red sandstones of
the Arumbera Sandstone, Grant Bluff, and Central Mount Stuart Formations in central …

Gondolelloid multielement conodont apparatus (Nicoraella) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan Province, southwestern China

J Huang, S Hu, Q Zhang, PCJ Donoghue… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
The morphology and position of elements in the apparatus are keys to resolving the
taxonomy, homology, evolutionary relationships, structure, function and feeding patterns …

Microbially induced carbonate precipitation in a Middle Triassic microbial mat deposit from southwestern China: new implications for the formational process of micrite

M Luo, J Chen, W Qie, J Huang, Q Zhang, C Zhou… - Journal of Earth …, 2021 - Springer
Lime mud (ie, micrite) is a major component of carbonate deposits. Various mechanisms
(biotic versus abiotic) have been proposed for the formation of lime mud in Earth's history …

Infaunal response during the end-Permian mass extinction

M Luo, LA Buatois, GR Shi, ZQ Chen - GSA Bulletin, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) profoundly shaped shallow marine ecosystems.
Although much has been learned about this event based on the body-fossil record, the …

Middle Triassic conodont apparatus architecture revealed by synchrotron X-ray microtomography

JY Huang, C Martinez-Perez, SX Hu, PCJ Donoghue… - Palaeoworld, 2019 - Elsevier
The composition of conodont apparatuses is crucial for understanding the feeding
mechanisms of these early vertebrates. However, the multielement apparatus …