Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian conodonts from the Monte Cocco II Section (Carnic Alps, Italy)

Drowning of algal mounds: records from the Upper Carboniferous Lower Pseudoschwagerina Limestone, Carnic Alps, Austria

Anthracoporella algal mounds, up to 22 m thick, occur within the cyclic sequences of the Lower Pseudoschwagerina Limestone (uppermost Carboniferous), Carnic Alps (Austria). Their depositional environment lay between the wave base and the base of the photic zone. The algal mounds are overlain by dark, well-bedded, cherty wackestones and packstones. The cherty limestones contain cephalopods, thic...

Division Rhyniophyta - Upper Silurian to Middle Devonian

Among the oldest convincing fossils of early vascular land plants are those of the Division Rhyniophyta. The members of this division consist of: (1) simple axes with cuticle, stomates, epidermis, cortex and a terete (circular) centrarch xylem (xylem development occurs from the center of the stem to the periphery), without well-developed appendages or roots; (2) simple, isotomous branching syst...

Carbon isotope (N13C) stratigraphy across the Silurian^Devonian transition in North America: evidence for a perturbation of the global carbon cycle

Carbon isotope (N13C) analyses of marine carbonates spanning the Silurian^Devonian transition are compared from three richly fossiliferous, well-dated sequences in North America. The three sections, in the central Appalachian Mountains (West Virginia), Great Basin (Nevada), and the southern Mid-continent (Oklahoma), reveal positive N13C shifts beginning in the late Pridoli and reaching peak val...

Running head : Lower Devonian Nematothallus and Cosmochlaina anatomy Compression fossils from the Silurian and Devonian of southern Britain, composed of cuticles

Phylogeny, classification and evolution of Silurian and Devonian scorpions

The phylogenetic position of scorpions within the Chelicerata has been the subject of much debate in recent years (e.g. Weygoldt & Paulus, 1979; Bergström, 1980; Van der Hammen, 1989; Shultz, 1990; Starobogatov, 1990), but it revolves around one primary question: are scorpions part of a monophyletic Arachnida, or are they “merostomes” which exhibit a terrestrial grade of existence? Inclusion of...