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 …

Extreme greenhouse warming in the latest Permian played a key role in the largest animal
extinction event ever recorded in Earth history. The extinction was likely triggered by …

The early Mesozoic greenhouse period was characterized by variable climate conditions.
The driving mechanisms of this long-term variability are unclear due to a lack of full-period …

Volcanic processes create peculiar types of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems but,
surprisingly, very little is known about the infaunal palaeoecology of continental volcanic …

Trace fossils have proven useful for studying the timing and process of biotic recovery after
the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME). Recovery stages are defined by comparing …

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 …

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 …

We report two shallow marine, ichnofauna-bivalve-microbial mat biofacies from the Lower
Triassic **ahuancang Formation of the southern Qilian area, Qinghai Province, northwestern …

This study documents new stromatolite deposits from the Anisian succession of the Guanling
Formation in the Boyun section of eastern Yunnan Province, southwestern China. The …

The late Olenekian to early Ladinian marine carbonates of the epicontinental European
(Germanic) Basin accumulated during the several-million-year-long biotic recovery following …