Earth and Life

<p>Series foreword.-<br>Series preface.-<br>Dedication.-<br>Preface.-<br>Introduction.-<br>Authors, their addresses and contributions.-<br>Articles of a general nature.-<br>-Phanerozoic marine biodiversity: a fresh look at data, methods, patterns and processes.-<br>-Coordinated stasis reconsidered: a perspective after fifteen years.-<br>-Whilst this planet has gone cycling on: what role for periodic astronomical phenomena in large-scale patterns in the history of life?.-<br>-Climate change through time.-<br>-Development of intertidal biotas through Phanerozoic time.-<br>-Marine sclerobiofacies: encrusting and endolithic communities on shells through time and space.-<br>-Brachiopods and their auloporid epibionts in the Devonian of Boulonnais (France).-<br>-Fossil fish taphonomy and the contribution of microfossils to documenting Devonian vertebrate history.-<br>-The Messel Pit fossil site ‒ the legacy of the environment and life of the Eocene.-<br>Evolution exemplified by specific phyla or classes.-<br>-Evolutionary scenario of the early history of the Animal Kingdom: evidence from Precambrian (Ediacaran) Weng’an and Early Cambrian Maotianshan biotas, China.-<br>-The Ordovician Radiation: macroevolutionary crossroads of the Phanerozoic.-<br>-Phylogeny of Palaeozoic gastropods inferred from their ontogeny.-<br>-Palaeozoic innovations in the micro- and megafossil plant record: from the earliest plant spores to the earliest seeds.- <br>-Tentaculitids ‒ an enigmatic group of Palaeozoic fossils.-<br>-Palaeozoic ammonoids ‒ diversity and development of conch morphology.-<br>-Quantitative approach to diversity and decline in Late Palaeozoic trilobites.-<br>-Devonian cladid crinoid evolution, diversity, and first and last occurrences: summary observations.-<br>-Palaeoecology, aerodynamics and the origins of avian flight.-<br>Global extinction events and biocrises.-<br />-The Ireviken Event in the Boree Creek Formation, New South Wales, Australia.-<br>-Isotope geochemistry and plankton response to the Ireviken (earliest Wenlock) and Cyrtograptus lundgreni events, Cape Phillips Formation, Arctic Canada.-<br>-Late Ludfordian (Silurian) correlations and the Lau Global Extinction Event.-<br>-The late Middle Devonian (Givetian) global Taghanic Biocrisis in its type area (northern Appalachian Basin): geologically rapid faunal transitions driven by global and local environmental changes.-<br>-The Permian ‒ a time of major evolutions and revolutions in the history of life.-<br>-Millennial physical events and the end-Permian mass mortality in the western Palaeo-Tethys: timing and primary causes.-<br>-Chicxulub Impact, Deccan Traps and the K-T mass extinction.-<br>-After mass extinction but no recovery: new tales of ‘Dead Clade Walking’ from Austral and Boreal post-K-Pg (Danian) assemblages.-<br>-Fungi, a driving force in normalization of the terrestrial carbon cycle following the end-Cretaceous extinction.-<br>Palaeobiogeography.-<br>-Changes in the pattern of brachiopod biogeography in northern Asia through Early and Middle Devonian times.-<br>-The paleogeography of Pennsylvanian crinoids and blastoids.-<br>-Biogeography of Jurassic and Early Cretaceous ostracods from Western Australia and what they reveal about the evolution of the Indian Ocean.-<br>-Cretaceous continental bridges, insularity, and vicariance in the southern hemisphere: which route did dinosaurs take?.-<br>-Palaeobiogeography of Mesozoic mammals―revisited.-<br>Cenozoic era.-<br>-Cenozoic environmental shifts.-<br>-Miocene asteroid impacts: proposed effects on the biogeography and extinction patterns of eastern North American gastropods.-<br>-The rise of Australian marsupials: a synopsis of biostratigraphic, phylogenetic, palaeoecologic and palaeobiogeographic understanding.-<br>A Perspective.-</p>