The Triassic is bounded by two of the most severe biotic crises, but nevertheless this time was, for bivalves, both a recovery and a diversification period, and a moment to fully exploit some of their evolutionary novelties. ...

The Paleozoic-Triassic Patagonian basins, at present comprising the Andean hinterland and structural basement of active basins, document a pre-Jurassic evolution associated with accretionary processes at the paleo-Pacific ...

The narrow active temperature ranges of ectothermic tetrapods can be used as proxies for reconstructing paleoclimates. Here we deduce the climatic preferences of major Permo-Triassic tetrapod groups based on their known ...

The Brachyopoidea is a group of Mesozoic temnospondyls with flat, parabolic skulls that were recently reviewed and considered to include Brachyopoidea and Chigutisauridae (Warren and Marsicano, 2000; Yates and Warren, 2000, ...

Bivalves are a highly diversified molluscan class, with a long history dating from early Cambrian times (Cope, 2000). Although the group already showed a steady diversification trend during the Paleozoic, it only became ...

The salle Grylloblattidae or Grylloblattodea order (extant representatives are referred to as ‘living fossils’ and have relictual distributions) is one of the least diverse extant insect groups (with 29 species and five ...