The Pliensbachian–Toarcian crisis (Early Jurassic) is one of the major Mesozoic
paleoecological disturbances when ca. 20% of marine and continental families went extinct …

A detailed sedimentological, geochemical and mineralogical study is carried out on the
Early Bajocian to Early Callovian (Middle Jurassic) limestones of the Paris Basin. Objectives …

Major carbon cycle disturbances reflected by carbon isotope excursions (CIE) have been
reported in the Jurassic successions of Euro-Boreal and Mediterranean basins. However …

Уважаемый коллега! Стремительное появление геометрической морфометрии как
особого раздела морфологических исследований в середине 90-х годов XX в. и …

Three main modes of extinction are responsible for reductions in morphological disparity:(1)
random (caused by a nonselective extinction event);(2) marginal (a symmetric, selective …

Background Disparity refers to the morphological variation in a sample of taxa, and is distinct
from diversity or taxonomic richness. Diversity and disparity are fundamentally decoupled; …

Here, we advance novel uses of allometric spaces—multidimensional spaces specifically
defined by allometric coefficients—with the goal of investigating the focal role of …

Teleosauroidea was a clade of successful, morphologically diverse, ancient
crocodylomorphs that were integral in coastal marine/lagoonal environments during the …

Belemnites are extinct cephalopods whose evolutionary history is representative of
successful adaptive radiations during the Mesozoic. Nevertheless, a detailed understanding …

The fossil record shows that the vast majority of all species that ever existed are extinct and
that most lineages go through an expansion and decline in diversity. However …