Outputs (7)

Minerals in the gut: scoping a Cambrian digestive system (2016)
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Strang, K., Armstrong, H., & Harper, D. (2016). Minerals in the gut: scoping a Cambrian digestive system. Royal Society Open Science, 3(11), Article 160420. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160420

The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland contains the first exceptionally preserved mat-ground community of the Cambrian, dominated, in terms of abundance, by trilobites but particularly characterized by iconic arthropods and lobopods, some a... Read More about Minerals in the gut: scoping a Cambrian digestive system.

Shell-Filled Burrows in the Upper Oligocene Antigua Formation, Antigua, Lesser Antilles (2016)
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Donovan, S., Harper, D., & Portell, R. (2017). Shell-Filled Burrows in the Upper Oligocene Antigua Formation, Antigua, Lesser Antilles. Ichnos: an International Journal of Plant and Animal Traces, 24, 72-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2016.1223653

Limestones of the Upper Oligocene Antigua Formation of Antigua contain unusual burrows filled with the densely packed debris of shelly benthos. Unlined burrows (Planolites?) in deep-water biofacies at Half Moon Bay, parish of Saint Philip, are packed... Read More about Shell-Filled Burrows in the Upper Oligocene Antigua Formation, Antigua, Lesser Antilles.

Permian–Triassic evolution of the Bivalvia: Extinction-recovery patterns linked to ecologic and taxonomic selectivity (2016)
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Chenyi, T., Zhong-Qiang, C., & Harper, D. (2016). Permian–Triassic evolution of the Bivalvia: Extinction-recovery patterns linked to ecologic and taxonomic selectivity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 459, 53-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.06.042

The Bivalvia is an important benthic clade that was relatively less affected than other benthos during the Permian–Triassic (P–Tr) biotic crisis, reporting losses of 85%, 64%, and 32% at the species, genus and family levels, respectively. This clade... Read More about Permian–Triassic evolution of the Bivalvia: Extinction-recovery patterns linked to ecologic and taxonomic selectivity.

A Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) bivalve-dominated molluscan fauna from the Stairway Sandstone, Amadeus Basin, central Australia (2016)
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Jakobsen, K., Brock, G., Nielsen, A., & Harper, D. (2016). A Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) bivalve-dominated molluscan fauna from the Stairway Sandstone, Amadeus Basin, central Australia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 61(4), 897-924. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00215.2015

A bivalve-dominated molluscan fauna is described from the Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) Stairway Sandstone, Amadeus Basin, central Australia. The fauna comprises 16 species of bivalves and rostroconchs plus six gastropod species which are treated u... Read More about A Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) bivalve-dominated molluscan fauna from the Stairway Sandstone, Amadeus Basin, central Australia.

Biogeographic and bathymetric determinants of brachiopod extinction and survival during the Late Ordovician mass extinction (2016)
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Finnegan, S., Rasmussen, C., & Harper, D. (2016). Biogeographic and bathymetric determinants of brachiopod extinction and survival during the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1829), Article 20160007. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0007

The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME) coincided with dramatic climate changes, but there are numerous ways in which these changes could have driven marine extinctions. We use a palaeobiogeographic database of rhynchonelliform brachiopods to exam... Read More about Biogeographic and bathymetric determinants of brachiopod extinction and survival during the Late Ordovician mass extinction.

The Sirius Passet Lagerstatte: silica death masking opens the window on the earliest matground community of the Cambrian explosion (2016)
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Strang, K., Armstrong, H., Harper, D., & Trabucho-Alexandre, J. P. (2016). The Sirius Passet Lagerstatte: silica death masking opens the window on the earliest matground community of the Cambrian explosion. Lethaia: An International Journal of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, 49(4), 631-643. https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12174

The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (SP), Peary Land, North Greenland, occurs in black slates deposited at or just below storm wave base. It represents the earliest Cambrian microbial mat community with exceptional preservation, predating the Burgess Shale... Read More about The Sirius Passet Lagerstatte: silica death masking opens the window on the earliest matground community of the Cambrian explosion.

Onset of main Phanerozoic marine radiation sparked by emerging Mid Ordovician icehouse (2016)
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Rasmussen, C. Ø., Ullmann, C., Jakobsen, K., Lindskog, A., Hansen, J., Hansen, T., …Harper, D. (2016). Onset of main Phanerozoic marine radiation sparked by emerging Mid Ordovician icehouse. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 18884. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep18884

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) was the most rapid and sustained increase in marine Phanerozoic biodiversity. What generated this biotic response across Palaeozoic seascapes is a matter of debate; several intrinsic and extrinsic... Read More about Onset of main Phanerozoic marine radiation sparked by emerging Mid Ordovician icehouse.