Challenges and directions in analytical paleobiology

EM Dillon, EM Dunne, TM Womack, M Kouvari… - Paleobiology, 2023‏ - cambridge.org
Over the last 50 years, access to new data and analytical tools has expanded the study of
analytical paleobiology, contributing to innovative analyses of biodiversity dynamics over …

rphylopic: An R package for fetching, transforming, and visualising PhyloPic silhouettes

W Gearty, LA Jones - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Effective data visualisation is vital for data exploration, analysis and communication in
research. In ecology and evolutionary biology, data are often associated with various …

[HTML][HTML] From meat availability to hominin and carnivore biomass: A paleosynecological approach to reconstructing predator-prey biomass ratios in the Pleistocene

G Rodríguez-Gómez, JA Martín-González… - Quaternary Science …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Reconstructing the conditions and circumstances under which the human lineage evolved is
of great interest to those disciplines related to human evolution, especially in fields such as …

Late Cretaceous ammonoids show that drivers of diversification are regionally heterogeneous

JT Flannery-Sutherland, CD Crossan, CE Myers… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Palaeontologists have long sought to explain the diversification of individual clades to whole
biotas at global scales. Advances in our understanding of the spatial distribution of the fossil …

Bayesian multi-proxy reconstruction of early Eocene latitudinal temperature gradients

K Eichenseer, LA Jones - Climate of the Past, 2024‏ - cp.copernicus.org
Accurately reconstructing large-scale palaeoclimatic patterns from sparse local records is
critical for understanding the evolution of Earth's climate. Particular challenges arise from the …

A Phanerozoic gridded dataset for palaeogeographic reconstructions

LA Jones, M Domeier - Scientific Data, 2024‏ - nature.com
Abstract Global Plate Models are widely used in the Earth Sciences to reconstruct the past
geographic position of geological and palaeontological samples. However, the application …

Turtle body size evolution is determined by lineage‐specific specializations rather than global trends

BM Farina, PL Godoy, RBJ Benson… - Ecology and …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Organisms display a considerable variety of body sizes and shapes, and macroevolutionary
investigations help to understand the evolutionary dynamics behind such variations. Turtles …

[HTML][HTML] Early Jurassic origin of avian endothermy and thermophysiological diversity in dinosaurs

AA Chiarenza, JL Cantalapiedra, LA Jones, S Gamboa… - Current Biology, 2024‏ - cell.com
A fundamental question in dinosaur evolution is how they adapted to long-term climatic
shifts during the Mesozoic and when they developed environmentally independent, avian …

Accounting for sampling heterogeneity suggests a low paleolatitude origin for dinosaurs

JA Heath, N Cooper, P Upchurch, PD Mannion - Current Biology, 2025‏ - cell.com
Dinosaurs dominated Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems for∼ 160 million years, but their
biogeographic origin remains poorly understood. The earliest unequivocal dinosaur fossils …

Mechanistic phylodynamic models do not provide conclusive evidence that non-avian dinosaurs were in decline before their final extinction

BJ Allen, MVV Oliveira, T Stadler… - Cambridge Prisms …, 2024‏ - cambridge.org
Phylodynamic models can be used to estimate diversification trajectories from time-
calibrated phylogenies. Here we apply two such models to phylogenies of non-avian …