For well over a century and a half coal has played a vital role in South Africa's economy and
currently bituminous coal is the primary energy source for domestic electricity generation, as …

Abstract The upper Stormberg Group (Elliot and Clarens formations) of the main Karoo
Basin is well-known for its fossil vertebrate fauna, comprising early branching members of …

Dinosauromorpha includes dinosaurs and other much less diverse dinosaur precursors of
Triassic age, such as lagerpetids [1]. Joint occurrences of these taxa with dinosaurs are rare …

Sauropod dinosaurs were dominant, bulk-browsing herbivores for 130 million years of the
Mesozoic, attaining gigantic body masses in excess of 60 metric tons [1, 2]. A columnar …

Dinosaurs dominated the terrestrial ecosystems for more than 140 Myr during the Mesozoic
era, and among them were sauropodomorphs, the largest land animals recorded in the …

The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles. Over 300 million years ago, an early
land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be …

Mass extinctions have profoundly impacted the evolution of life through not only reducing
taxonomic diversity but also resha** ecosystems and biogeographic patterns. In …

Dilophosaurus wetherilli was the largest animal known to have lived on land in North
America during the Early Jurassic. Despite its charismatic presence in pop culture and …

Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

Summary The importance of adaptation [1–4] versus organizational constraints [5–7] in
sha** common macroevolutionary trends remains unclear [8]. The fossil record is key to …