Abstract Western Tethys sedimentary successions constitute fundamental archives of Late Triassic–Early Jurassic environmental, carbonate production and tectonic changes. During the Triassic, Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria) belonged to passive margin, characterised by deposition early-dolomitized peritidal Hauptdolomit (Norian) adjacent basinward Dachstein shelf passing upward mixed carbonate...

The Carboniferous–Triassic period was an important stage of global sea–land transformation, with coal formation in the Carboniferous, biological extinction at end Permian, and drought Triassic. MS-1 well Mosuowan High Junggar Basin is deepest drilled Northwestern China. In this paper, we investigate sedimentary environment climate evolution area central during Late Carboniferous–Early Permian b...

Carbon cycle disturbance associated with mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period continued through the Early Triassic, an interval of approximately 5 million years. Coincidence of carbon cycle stabilization with accelerated Middle Triassic biotic recovery suggests a link between carbon cycling and biodiversity, but the cause of Early Triassic carbon isotope excursions remains poorly un...

The definition of the structure and kinematics of the South-Pyrenean Frontal thrust, to the west of its westernmost outcrop in the External Sierras is the goal of this work. The methodology used is based on the construction and restoration of three balanced cross-sections. In addition to that, paleomagnetic analyses are applied to unravel possible vertical axis rotations linked to thrust kinema...

Phenotype-environment correlations and the evolution of trait interactions in adaptive radiations have been widely studied to gain insight into the dynamics underpinning rapid species diversification. In this study we explore the phenotype-environment correlation and evolution of operculum shape in cichlid fishes using an outline-based geometric morphometric approach combined with stable isotop...

A series of spectacular discoveries have transformed our understanding of Mesozoic mammals in recent years. These finds reveal hitherto-unsuspected ecomorphological diversity that suggests that mammals experienced a major adaptive radiation during the Middle to Late Jurassic. Patterns of mammalian macroevolution must be reinterpreted in light of these new discoveries, but only taxonomic diversi...

The Permian-Triassic bottleneck has long been thought to have drastically altered the course of echinoid evolution, with the extinction of the entire echinoid stem group having taken place during the end-Permian mass extinction. The Early Triassic fossil record of echinoids is, however, sparse, and new fossils are paving the way for a revised interpretation of the evolutionary history of echino...

Most of the research on Paleoentomology focuses describing morphology and classification one species fossil insects. However, there is little information temporal diversity insects during Permian Triassic periods. The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) was greatest biological ecological crisis Phanerozoic Eon Earth, while pattern recovery terrestrial ecosystem still unclear. In this paper, popu...

New evidence is presented on the Triassic–Jurassic boundary in northern Lusitanian Basin, Portugal, based miospore assemblages from a composite Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic succession of Silves Group. The latter comprises, base top, Conraria, Penela, Castelo Viegas and Pereiros formations. Three informal palynological zones have been documented compared with coeval palynozones West South Eu...

The Cyclostomata consists of the two orders Myxiniformes (hagfishes) and Petromyzoniformes (lampreys), and its monophyly has been unequivocally supported by recent molecular phylogenetic studies. Under this updated vertebrate phylogeny, we performed in silico evolutionary analyses using currently available cDNA sequences of cyclostomes. We first calculated the GC-content at four-fold degenerate...