The 3.43 billion-year-old Strelley Pool Chert, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, contains compelling evidence of Early Archaean life in the form of kilometre-sized remnants of an ancient stromatolitic carbonate platform. Reviewing and building on earlier studies, we examine the fossilized remains of the platform to seek ecosystem-scale insights to Earth’s early biosphere, examining the evidenc...

The Eocene platform deposits in the Moroccan Ghomarides have been studied. These marine carbonate platforms were located westernmost Tethys approximately 30°N and 0°–10°W during Cuisian to Bartonian. study includes observations from fossiliferous assemblages (such as larger benthic foraminifera colonial corals), their palaeoenvironment well rock texture fabric. Eight microfacies identified that...

The northward-flowing Humboldt Current hosts perpetually high levels of productivity along the western coast South America. Here, we aim to elucidate deep-time history this globally important ecosystem based on a detailed palaeoecological analysis exceptionally preserved middle–upper Miocene vertebrate assemblages Pisco Formation East Basin, southern Peru. We summarise observations hundreds fos...