In Europe and North America, Pennsylvanian strata contain several Lagerstätten, perhaps the best known being Mazon Creek in Illinois, USA. Other important Pennsylvanian Lagerstätten are Montceau-les-Mines in France, Nýřany ...

Florivory (flower consumption) occurs worldwide in modern angiosperms, associated with pollen and nectar consumption. However, florivory remains unrecorded from fossil flowers since their Early Cretaceous appearance. We ...

For more than 40 years, geologists have understood that the thickness and quality of the Springfield Coal are intimately related to the Galatia channel, a paleochannel that existed contemporaneously with peat deposition. ...

Large numbers of plant fossils have been collected from the early Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian/Kasimovian) age Kinney Brick Company Quarry, southeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This location was the focus of a ...

Recent renewed interest in using fossil data to understand how biotic interactions have shaped the evolution of life is challenging the widely held assumption that long-term climate changes are the primary drivers of ...

This paper provides a description and analysis of cranial remains of a rhynchosaur from the Upper Triassic Evangeline Member of the Wolfville Formation of Nova Scotia, Canada. This material, primarily comprising jaw elements, ...

We report the first confirmed fossil bats from North Dakota, including a new species referable to the Vespertilionidae represented by a maxilla with P4-M3 from the Brule Formation, Fitterer Ranch local fauna, early Oligocene, ...

Collective integration and processing of information have increased through the history of life, through both the formation of aggregates in which the entities may have very different properties and which jointly coarse-grained ...