Estimating morphological diversity and tempo with discrete character-taxon matrices: implementation, challenges, progress, and future directions

GT Lloyd - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Discrete character-taxon matrices are increasingly being used in an attempt to understand
the pattern and tempo of morphological evolution; however, methodological sophistication …

Novelty and innovation in the history of life

DH Erwin - Current Biology, 2015‏ - cell.com
The history of life as documented by the fossil record encompasses evolutionary
diversifications at scales ranging from the Ediacaran–Cambrian explosion of animal life and …

Heterogeneous selectivity and morphological evolution of marine clades during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

X Liu, H Song, D Chu, X Dai, F Wang… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity are distinct measures of biodiversity,
typically expected to evolve synergistically. However, evidence from mass extinctions …

Anatomy of a mass extinction: sedimentological and taphonomic evidence for drought-induced die-offs at the Permo-Triassic boundary in the main Karoo Basin, South …

RMH Smith, J Botha-Brink - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The southern part of the Karoo Basin of South Africa contains a near complete stratigraphic
record of the Permo-Triassic boundary (PTB). Isotope-and magneto-stratigraphy confirm that …

The rise of the ruling reptiles and ecosystem recovery from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction

MD Ezcurra, RJ Butler - Proceedings of the Royal Society …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
One of the key faunal transitions in Earth history occurred after the Permo-Triassic mass
extinction (ca 252.2 Ma), when the previously obscure archosauromorphs (which include …

Shifting spaces: Which disparity or dissimilarity measurement best summarize occupancy in multidimensional spaces?

T Guillerme, MN Puttick, AE Marcy… - Ecology and …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Multidimensional analysis of traits are now common in ecology and evolution and are based
on trait spaces in which each dimension summarizes the observed trait combination (a …

Models for the rise of the dinosaurs

MJ Benton, J Forth, MC Langer - Current Biology, 2014‏ - cell.com
Dinosaurs arose in the early Triassic in the aftermath of the greatest mass extinction ever
and became hugely successful in the Mesozoic. Their initial diversification is a classic …

The Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (Lo**ian), South Africa: a proposed biostratigraphy based on a new compilation of stratigraphic ranges

PA Viglietti, RMH Smith, KD Angielczyk… - Journal of African Earth …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Dicynodon Assemblage Zone (DiAZ) of South Africa's Karoo Basin is one of the
eight biostratigraphic zones of the Beaufort Group. It spans the uppermost Permian strata …

New geochemical and palaeontological data from the Permian-Triassic boundary in the South African Karoo Basin test the synchronicity of terrestrial and marine …

J Botha, AK Huttenlocker, RMH Smith, R Prevec… - Palaeogeography …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) is widely recognised as the largest mass
extinction in Phanerozoic history. In marine strata the main extinction event is well …

Ecomorphological diversifications of Mesozoic marine reptiles: the roles of ecological opportunity and extinction

TL Stubbs, MJ Benton - Paleobiology, 2016‏ - cambridge.org
Mesozoic marine ecosystems were dominated by several clades of reptiles, including
sauropterygians, ichthyosaurs, crocodylomorphs, turtles, and mosasaurs, that repeatedly …