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Planning for climate change: Identifying minimum-dispersal corridors for the cape proteaceae

NCEAS: Promoting creative collaborations

Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record?

This paper tests whether the most common fossil brachiopod, gastropod, and bivalve genera also have intrinsically more durable shells. Commonness was quantified using occurrence frequency of the 450 most frequently occurring genera of these groups in the Paleobiology Database (PBDB). Durability was scored for each taxon on the basis of shell size, thickness, reinforcement (ribs, folds, spines), mineralogy, and microstructural organic content.

Extinction trajectories of benthic organisms across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary

Round up the usual suspects: Common genera in the fossil record and the nature of wastebasket taxa

Testing the role of biological interactions in the evolution of mid-Mesozoic marine benthic ecosystems

Brachiopod and bivalve ecology in Late Triassic (Alps, Austria): Onshore-offshore replacements caused by variations in sediment and nutrient supply

Modeling shelliness and alteration in shell beds: Variation in hardpart-input and burial rates leads to opposing predictions

Effects of taxon abundance distributions on expected numbers of sampled taxa

Linking taphonomy to community-level abundance: Insights into compositional fidelity of the upper triassic shell concentrations (Eastern Alps)