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Pearman, T. R. R., Paul E. Brewin, Alastair M. M. Baylis, and Paul Brickle. "Deep-Sea Epibenthic Megafaunal Assemblages of the Falkland Islands, Southwest Atlantic." Diversity 14, no. 8 (August 10, 2022): 637. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d14080637.

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Deep-sea environments face increasing pressure from anthropogenic exploitation and climate change, but remain poorly studied. Hence, there is an urgent need to compile quantitative baseline data on faunal assemblages, and improve our understanding of the processes that drive faunal assemblage composition in deep-sea environments. The Southwest Atlantic deep sea is an undersampled region that hosts unique and globally important faunal assemblages. To date, our knowledge of these assemblages has been predominantly based on ex situ analysis of scientific trawl and fisheries bycatch specimens, lim

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Storer, John E., and Harold N. Bryant. "Biostratigraphy of the Cypress Hills Formation (Eocene to Miocene), Saskatchewan: equid types (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) and associated faunal assemblages." Journal of Paleontology 67, no. 4 (July 1993): 660–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000024987.

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Among the equid species named from the Cypress Hills Formation (Eocene to Miocene) of Saskatchewan, Mesohippus westoni and M. propinquus are documented from the early Chadronian Calf Creek local fauna, and M. westoni is also known from the earlier Southfork local fauna and from other Chadronian and Orellan deposits of western North America. Teeth possibly referable to Miohippus assiniboiensis are found in association with Whitneyan or early Arikareean assemblages. Miohippus grandis, not M. assiniboiensis, is the correct reference for larger Chadronian equids from Calf Creek and other local fau

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Kostopoulos, D. S., and G. D. Koufos. "SIMILARITY RELATIONSHIPS AMONG GREEK MIDDLE MIOCENE TO EARLY - MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE MAMMAL ASSEMBLAGES." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 40, no. 1 (June 8, 2018): 134. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.16498.

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The Greek fossil record of small and large mammal Local Faunal Assemblages is studied and compared by means of cluster analysis techniques using Jaccard similarity index and unweighted pair-group method. The analysis allow recognizing a good arrangement of the Greek LFAs according to time and a main cluster gap, corresponding to an important faunal renewal that, however, is not synchronous in the large and small mammal community. Minor groupings of large mammal faunas seem also to fit with main climatic trends, whereas the small mammal assemblage appears to undergo longer periods oftaxonomic s

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Rogers, Alan R. "On Equifinality in Faunal Analysis." American Antiquity 65, no. 4 (October 2000): 709–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2694423.

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A faunal assemblage may be dominated by dense bones either because the soft ones have been transported away or because they have been gnawed beyond recognition. Archaeologists have often despaired of distinguishing between these hypotheses and have attributed the problem to equifinality-to the fact that different causes can produce identical outcomes. Yet under the models of transport and attrition studied here, these causes do not produce identical outcomes. It has been difficult to distinguish between them only because conventional statistical methods lack power. Using the new method of abcm

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Woinarski, J. C. Z., B. Rankmore, B. Hill, A. D. Griffiths, A. Stewart, and B. Grace. "Fauna assemblages in regrowth vegetation in tropical open forests of the Northern Territory, Australia." Wildlife Research 36, no. 8 (2009): 675. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr08128.

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Context. World-wide, primary forest is in decline. This places increasing importance on understanding the use by biodiversity of regrowth (secondary) forest, and on the management of such regrowth. Aims. This study aimed to compare the terrestrial vertebrate assemblages in tropical eucalypt forests, regrowth in these forests (following clearing for pastoral intensification) and cleared land without regrowth, to provide evidence for developing management guidelines for regrowth vegetation in a region (the Daly catchment of the Northern Territory) subject to increasing demands for land-use inten

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Laird, Joshua D., and Christina L. Belanger. "Quantifying successional change and ecological similarity among Cretaceous and modern cold-seep faunas." Paleobiology 45, no. 1 (December 27, 2018): 114–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2018.41.

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AbstractAccurately recognizing analogues between fossil and modern ecosystems allows paleoecologists to more fully interpret fossil assemblages and modern ecologists to leverage the fossil record to address long-term ecological and environmental changes. However, this becomes increasingly difficult as taxonomic turnover increases the dissimilarity between ecosystems. Here we use a guild-based approach to compare the ecological similarity of Cretaceous cold-seep assemblages preserved in the Pierre Shale surrounding the Black Hills and modern cold-seep assemblages from five previously recognized

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Rowan, John, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, Christopher J. Campisano, Faysal Bibi, René Bobe, Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Stephen R. Frost, et al. "Early Pleistocene large mammals from Maka’amitalu, Hadar, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia." PeerJ 10 (April 6, 2022): e13210. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13210.

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The Early Pleistocene was a critical time period in the evolution of eastern African mammal faunas, but fossil assemblages sampling this interval are poorly known from Ethiopia’s Afar Depression. Field work by the Hadar Research Project in the Busidima Formation exposures (~2.7–0.8 Ma) of Hadar in the lower Awash Valley, resulted in the recovery of an early Homo maxilla (A.L. 666-1) with associated stone tools and fauna from the Maka’amitalu basin in the 1990s. These assemblages are dated to ~2.35 Ma by the Bouroukie Tuff 3 (BKT-3). Continued work by the Hadar Research Project over the last tw

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Rifai, Husen. "Benthic faunal assemblages in seagrass meadows in Albany, Western Australia." AQUATIC SCIENCE & MANAGEMENT 7, no. 1 (September 21, 2019): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.35800/jasm.7.1.2019.24996.

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Title (Bahasa Indonesia): Kumpulan fauna bentik di hamparan lamun di Albany, Australia Barat In order to compare benthic fauna assemblages in four locations of seagrass beds in Albany (Princess Royal Harbour, Oyster Harbour, Two People Bay and Frenchman Bay), a research had beenconducted between 18 and 21 April 2017. There were two aims of this study. First, to investigate six sites within four locations with various degree of anthropogenic impact in order to understand the faunal richness and abundance in those locations. Second, to measure and record the environmental factors which are assum

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Lee, Sangmin, Duck K. Choi, and G. R. Shi. "Pennsylvanian brachiopods from the Geumcheon-Jangseong Formation, Pyeongan Supergroup, Taebaeksan Basin, Korea." Journal of Paleontology 84, no. 3 (May 2010): 417–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/09-105.1.

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We provide the first detailed systematic taxonomy and paleoecological investigation of late Paleozoic brachiopod faunas from Korea. Specifically, we focus on the brachiopods from the Geumcheon-Jangseong Formation, the lower part of the Pyeongan Supergroup in the Taebaeksan Basin. The formation yields a variety of marine invertebrate fossils, including brachiopods, molluscs, echinoderms, corals, fusulinids, and conodonts. Diverse brachiopods are described from six siliciclastic horizons of the formation at three localities, including 23 species belonging to 20 genera with two new species: Rhipi

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Nasser, Nawaf A., R. Timothy Patterson, Jennifer M. Galloway, and Hendrik Falck. "Intra-lake response of Arcellinida (testate lobose amoebae) to gold mining-derived arsenic contamination in northern Canada: Implications for environmental monitoring." PeerJ 8 (May 4, 2020): e9054. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9054.

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Arcellinida (testate lobose amoebae) were examined from 40 near-surface sediment samples (top 0.5 cm) from two lakes impacted by arsenic (As) contamination associated with legacy gold mining in subarctic Canada. The objectives of the study are two folds: quantify the response of Arcellinida to intra-lake variability of As and other physicochemical controls, and evaluate whether the impact of As contamination derived from two former gold mines, Giant Mine (1938–2004) and Tundra Mine (1964–1968 and 1983–1986), on the Arcellinida distribution in both lakes is comparable or different. Cluster anal

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Mancosu, Andrea, and James H. Nebelsick. "Paleoecology of sublittoral Miocene echinoids from Sardinia: A case study for substrate controls of faunal distributions." Journal of Paleontology 93, no. 04 (April 11, 2019): 764–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.4.

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AbstractA rich echinoid fauna within the middle Miocene carbonate sedimentary succession cropping out along the coast between Santa Caterina di Pittinuri and S'Archittu (central-western Sardinia) allows the comparison of faunal gradients and preservation potentials from both hard and soft substrata. Three echinoid assemblages are recognized. Faunal composition, as well as taphonomic and sedimentological features and functional morphological interpretation of the echinoid test indicate an outer sublittoral setting. Assemblage 1 represents a highly structured environment within the photic zone,

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Frinault, Bétina A. V., Frazer D. W. Christie, Sarah E. Fawcett, Raquel F. Flynn, Katherine A. Hutchinson, Chloë M. J. Montes Strevens, Michelle L. Taylor, Lucy C. Woodall, and David K. A. Barnes. "Antarctic Seabed Assemblages in an Ice-Shelf-Adjacent Polynya, Western Weddell Sea." Biology 11, no. 12 (November 25, 2022): 1705. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology11121705.

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Ice shelves cover ~1.6 million km2 of the Antarctic continental shelf and are sensitive indicators of climate change. With ice-shelf retreat, aphotic marine environments transform into new open-water spaces of photo-induced primary production and associated organic matter export to the benthos. Predicting how Antarctic seafloor assemblages may develop following ice-shelf loss requires knowledge of assemblages bordering the ice-shelf margins, which are relatively undocumented. This study investigated seafloor assemblages, by taxa and functional groups, in a coastal polynya adjacent to the Larse

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Mörs, Th. "Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of continental Tertiary vertebrate faunas in the Lower Rhine Embayment (NW-Germany)." Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw 81, no. 2 (August 2002): 177–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016774600022411.

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AbstractThis paper discusses the faunal content, the mammal biostratigraphy, and the environmental ecology of three important continental Tertiary vertebrate faunas from the Lower Rhine Embayment. The sites investigated are Rott (MP 30, Late Oligocene), Hambach 6C (MN 5, Middle Miocene), Frechen and Hambach 11 (both MN 16, Late Pliocene). Comparative analysis of the entire faunas shows the assemblages to exhibit many conformities in their general composition, presumably resulting from their preference for wet lowlands. It appears that very similar environmental conditions for vertebrates reocc

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Krivicich, Elyssa B., William I. Ausich, and David L. Meyer. "Crinoid assemblages from the Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean, early Viséan, Mississippian) from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama." Journal of Paleontology 88, no. 6 (November 2014): 1154–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/13-180.

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The Mississippian Fort Payne Formation of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama is well known for its abundant crinoids and a diverse array of autochthonous and allochthonous carbonate and siliciclastic facies. Using Principal Coordinate Analysis and Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling, it is demonstrated that distinct, contemporaneous, and geographically adjacent autochthonous facies in south-central Kentucky supported distinct crinoid assemblages. The two carbonate buildup facies had different assemblages dominated by camerate crinoids, carbonate channel-fill deposits were dominated by advanced c

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Simões, Marcello Guimarães, Juliana Machado David, Luiz Eduardo Anelli, Carla Klein, Suzana Aparecida Matos, Vitor Bonatto Guerrini, and Lucas Veríssimo Warren. "The Permian Tiaraju bivalve assemblage, Passa Dois Group, southern Brazil: biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic significance." Brazilian Journal of Geology 47, no. 2 (April 2017): 209–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2317-4889201720170013.

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ABSTRACT: Permian bivalves of the Paraná Basin evolved in a large inland sea, under conditions of extreme isolation and environmental stress. Although known since 1918, its evolutionary history is still obscure due to the incomplete and biased information on faunal composition and stratigraphic distribution of various assemblages. Hence, the description of the Tiaraju assemblage, the only known bivalve occurrence in the Passa Dois Group from the southernmost Brazil, adds new key information on the composition, biocorrelation and age of this unique molluscan fauna. Terraia falconeri, Cowperesia

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Unsworth, Richard K. F., Sammy De Grave, Jamaluddin Jompa, David J. Smith, and James J. Bell. "Faunal relationships with seagrass habitat structure: a case study using shrimp from the Indo-Pacific." Marine and Freshwater Research 58, no. 11 (2007): 1008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf07058.

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Caridean shrimp were used as a model group to investigate the effects of seagrass floral habitat complexity on Indo-Pacific fauna. Relationships between shrimp and seagrass habitat characteristics were explored using both multivariate and multiple linear regression modelling approaches. Epifaunal shrimp assemblages were sampled in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia. Seagrass habitat complexity had a significant positive impact on shrimp abundance (F3,59 = 17.51, P < 0.001) and species richness (F3,59 = 10.88, P < 0.001), while significantly altering shrimp assemblage structure

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Van-Silva, Wilian, Andrei Guimarães Guedes, Priscila Lemes de Azevedo-Silva, Fernanda Francisca Gontijo, Rosana Silva Barbosa, Gustavo Ribeiro Aloísio, and Flávio César Gomes de Oliveira. "Herpetofauna, Espora Hydroelectric Power Plant, state of Goiás, Brazil." Check List 3, no. 4 (November 1, 2007): 338. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/3.4.338.

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We provide a checklist of the herpetofaunal assemblage from Espora Hydroelectric Power Plant region (UHE Espora), southwestern of the state of Goiás, Brazil. Representatives of 32 amphibian and 71 reptile species were obtained during faunal monitoring and faunal rescue programs carried out in the study area. The obtained species list and distribution records are here discussed in an attempt to improve the still limited knowledge on Cerrado herpetofaunal assemblages.

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Barnes, R. S. K., and L. Claassens. "Do beds of subtidal estuarine seagrass constitute a refuge for macrobenthic biodiversity threatened intertidally?" Biodiversity and Conservation 29, no. 11-12 (July 22, 2020): 3227–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-020-02019-0.

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Abstract Biodiversity differentials between macrobenthic assemblages associated with adjacent intertidal and subtidal areas of a single seagrass system were investigated for the first time. Assemblage metrics of conservation relevance—faunal abundance and its patchiness, faunal richness, and beta diversity—were examined at four contrasting dwarf-eelgrass localities in the Knysna estuarine bay, part of South Africa's Garden Route National Park but a system whose intertidal areas are heavily impacted anthropogenically. Faunal assemblages were significantly different across all localities and bet

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Nakaya, Hideo. "Faunal turnover of the Miocene mammalian faunas of Sub-Saharan Africa and the middle Miocene paleoenvironmental change." Paleontological Society Special Publications 6 (1992): 218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2475262200007784.

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In evolutionary paleontology of terrestrial biotas, the Miocene is the most important age especially for evolution of hominids and mammalian faunas. The modern mammalian fauna appeared from the end of this age in Eurasia. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the assemblage of the late Miocene mammalian faunas was very poor, and these faunas were represented by only few faunas. Therefore, this incompleteness of the late Miocene East African faunas, it is very difficult to analyze faunal turnover of Sub-Saharan mammalian faunas and compare with Eurasian and Sub-Saharan faunas of this age.The paleontological c

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Flynn, Lawrence J., Richard H. Tedford, and Qiu Zhanxiang. "Enrichment and stability in the Pliocene mammalian fauna of North China." Paleobiology 17, no. 3 (1991): 246–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0094837300010599.

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The Late Neogene vertebrate fossil record from Yushe Basin presents multiple, superposed assemblages from a single area, spanning roughly the interval of 6–2 Ma. Both large and small mammals show peak species richness in the middle Pliocene but indicate relative faunal stability throughout the Pliocene. Large mammals show turnover, especially extinction, around 5 and 2.5 Ma. Small mammals indicate change (over half of the species and several genera), as well as turnover at the species level, between 4 and 3.4 Ma. The loosely controlled dating of these events does not disprove hypothetical corr

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Turvey, Samuel T., Jennifer J. Crees, James Hansford, Timothy E. Jeffree, Nick Crumpton, Iwan Kurniawan, Erick Setiyabudi, et al. "Quaternary vertebrate faunas from Sumba, Indonesia: implications for Wallacean biogeography and evolution." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284, no. 1861 (August 30, 2017): 20171278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1278.

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Historical patterns of diversity, biogeography and faunal turnover remain poorly understood for Wallacea, the biologically and geologically complex island region between the Asian and Australian continental shelves. A distinctive Quaternary vertebrate fauna containing the small-bodied hominin Homo floresiensis , pygmy Stegodon proboscideans, varanids and giant murids has been described from Flores, but Quaternary faunas are poorly known from most other Lesser Sunda Islands. We report the discovery of extensive new fossil vertebrate collections from Pleistocene and Holocene deposits on Sumba, a

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Morley, S. A., A. E. Bates, M. Lamare, J. Richard, K. D. Nguyen, J. Brown, and L. S. Peck. "Rates of warming and the global sensitivity of shallow water marine invertebrates to elevated temperature." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 96, no. 1 (March 11, 2014): 159–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315414000307.

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Assessing the sensitivity of ectotherms to variability in their environment is a key challenge, especially in the face of rapid warming of the Earth's surface. Comparing the upper temperature limits of species from different regions, at different rates of warming, has recently been developed as a method to estimate the long term sensitivity of shallow marine fauna. This paper presents the first preliminary data from four tropical Ascension Island, five temperate New Zealand and six Antarctic McMurdo Sound species. The slopes and intercepts of these three assemblages fitted within the overall p

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Zalasiewicz, J. A., A. W. A. Rushton, and A. W. Owen. "Late Caradoc graptolitic faunal gradients across the Iapetus Ocean." Geological Magazine 132, no. 5 (September 1995): 611–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800021269.

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AbstractLate Caradoc graptolite assemblages across the Iapetus Ocean in Wales and Scotland became progressively more disparate despite the narrowing of the ocean. We compare faunal distributions in continuous sections from opposite sides of Iapetus, at Whitland in South Wales and Hartfell Score in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. A comprehensive graptolite range-chart is given for each. The graptolite assemblages from the clingani Biozone are subdivided into a lower Ensigraptus caudatus Subzone and upper Dicellograptus morrisi Subzone at both localities, though the faunas differ in detail. Hi

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BROWN, GARETT M. "LITHOLOGICAL AND PALEOCOMMUNITY VARIATION ON A MISSISSIPPIAN (TOURNAISIAN) CARBONATE RAMP, MONTANA, USA." PALAIOS 36, no. 3 (March 30, 2021): 95–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2020.050.

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ABSTRACT The ecological structure of ancient marine communities is impacted by the environmental gradients controlling assemblage compositions and the heterogeneous distribution of sediment types. Closely spaced, replicate sampling of fauna has been suggested to mitigate the effects of such heterogeneity and improve gradient analyses, but this technique has rarely been combined with similar sampling of lithologic data. This study analyses lithological and faunal data to determine the environmental gradients controlling the composition of Mississippian fossil assemblages of the lower Madison Gr

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Sheehan, Michael S. "Dietary Responses to Mid-Holocene Climatic Change." North American Archaeologist 23, no. 2 (April 2002): 117–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/a5ad-ddk7-04ut-twur.

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Faunal assemblages from Paleoindian, Early Archaic, and Middle Archaic sites are compared to evaluate changes in diet related to hot and dry Altithermal conditions in the North American Great Plains. Successful completion of this comparison requires that site function and seasonality be controlled. These criteria place serious restrictions on the number of site assemblages suitable for analysis, consequently the site sample is relatively limited. Notwithstanding the limited sample, provocative results are obtained. Preliminary statistical analysis suggests significant changes in diet breadth a

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Landing, Ed, Christopher R. Barnes, and Robert K. Stevens. "Tempo of earliest Ordovician graptolite faunal succession: conodont-based correlations from the Tremadocian of Quebec." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 23, no. 12 (December 1, 1986): 1928–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e86-180.

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Successive Tremadocian planktic dendroid graptolite assemblages from continental slope sequences in Quebec can be correlated with North American platform biozonations on the basis of conodonts. Anisograptid-bearing (Assemblage 2), middle Tremadocian "Matane faunas" are associated with Early Ordovician Rossodus manitouensis Zone (new designation) conodonts. Younger middle Tremadocian faunas with adelograptids (Assemblage 3) are no younger than the Rossodus manitouensis Zone. Key dendroid evolutionary–immigration events take place within the lower conodont Fauna B interval. Rooted dendroids near

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van Kolfschoten, Th. "The Eemian mammal fauna of central Europe." Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 79, no. 2-3 (August 2000): 269–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016774600021752.

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AbstractThe knowledge of the Eemian fauna of central Europe is based on the fossil record from a number of sites located in the eastern part of Germany. The faunas with different deer species as well as Sus scrofa, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis and Glis glis indicate a forested environment alternating during the climatic optimum of the Eemian s.s. with areas with a more open environment inhabited by species such as Cricetus cricetus, Equus sp. (or Equus taubachensis), Equus hydruntinus and Stephanorhinus hemitoechus. Characteristic for the Rhine valley fauna are Hippopo

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Babazadeh, Seyed Ahmad, and Patrick De Wever. "Radiolarian Cretaceous age of Soulabest radiolarites in ophiolite suite of eastern Iran." Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 175, no. 2 (March 1, 2004): 121–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/175.2.121.

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Abstract The ophiolite-flysch range (accretionary prism) of the Sistan suture zone from eastern Iran includes several intensely deformed tectonic units, some of which consist of volcaniclastic rocks, volcanic rocks, siliceous pelagic sediments (cherts and radiolarites) and calcareous rocks (deep marine, platform), whereas others are represented by terrigenous turbidites. The Soulabest radiolarites are located in the Ratuk complex of the Tirrul’s subdivision [Tirrul et al. , 1983], or in the ophiolite suite of the Gazik province. The local biostratigraphy of this region is based on two faunal a

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Thompson, Scott A., Graham G. Thompson, and Philip C. Withers. "Influence of pit-trap type on the interpretation of fauna diversity." Wildlife Research 32, no. 2 (2005): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr03117.

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We compare bias in the interpretation of sampled reptile and mammal assemblages caught using 20-L PVC buckets and PVC pipes (150 mm by 600 mm deep) when used as pit-traps. We report on 16 632 pipe- and 16 632 bucket-nights of pit-trap data collected over 11 survey periods spread over 2.5 years around Ora Banda in Western Australia. Buckets caught more reptiles and more of the common ‘small’ and ‘medium’-sized reptiles, whereas pipes caught more mammals and the larger of the small trappable mammals. The trappability of some families of reptiles and some mammal species differs between buckets an

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Savage, Norman M. "Late Devonian (Frasnian and Famennian) conodonts from the Wadleigh Limestone, southeastern Alaska." Journal of Paleontology 66, no. 2 (March 1992): 277–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000033795.

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Conodont faunas from the upper part of the Wadleigh Limestone, Alexander terrane, southeastern Alaska, are of Frasnian to early Famennian age and include the new taxa Polygnathus aspelundi nanus n. subsp., Polygnathus decorosus dutroi n. subsp., Polygnathus elegantulus sparus n. subsp., Polygnathus gracilis n. subsp. A, Polygnathus n. sp. A, Palmatolepis subrecta youngquisti n. subsp., and Icriodus subterminus uyenoi n. subsp. Four distinct age-determined faunal assemblages are recognized. The lowest is assigned to the Lower Palmatolepis rhenana Zone (the chronozones of Ziegler and Sandberg, 1

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Ringvold, Halldis, John-Arvid Grytnes, and Gro I. van der Meeren. "Diver-operated suction sampling in Norwegian cobble grounds: technique and associated fauna." Crustaceana 88, no. 2 (2015): 184–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003406.

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Marine cobble habitats in shallow waters are rich in faunal assemblages and known settling grounds for valuable fishery resources such as lobsters and crabs. Sampling these grounds is challenging as traditional techniques do not efficiently collect fast-moving benthic invertebrates. Typically, fast moving crustaceans are not sampled according to actual densities. This study used airlift suction sampling, pioneered in North America, to quantify benthic faunal assemblages in cobble grounds across 68 sampling locations in south-western Norway. In total, 72 species of benthic invertebrates (5276 i

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Knudsen, Karen Luise. "Foraminifera in Late Elsterian-Holsteinian deposits of the Tornskov area in South Jutland, Denmark." Danmarks Geologiske Undersøgelse Serie B 10 (June 1, 1987): 7–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.34194/serieb.v10.7076.

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Foraminiferal faunas from marine Late Elsterian and Holsteinian deposits in the Tornskov borehole have been investigated. The faunal succession is correlated with the pollen zones of the same boring, and the assemblages are compared with Late Elsterian and Holsteinian faunas described from adjacent areas. Arctic foraminiferal faunas at the base of the marine sequence at Tornskov indicate that a marine transgression occurred prior to the establishment of full interglacial conditions, i.e. in the Late Elsterian. Marine sedimentation continued during much of the Holsteinian Interglacial. The asse

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Le Loeuff, Jean, Eric Buffetaut, and Michel Martin. "The last stages of dinosaur faunal history in Europe: a succession of Maastrichtian dinosaur assemblages from the Corbières (southern France)." Geological Magazine 131, no. 5 (September 1994): 625–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800012413.

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AbstractWe report the discovery of a dinosaur assemblage in the non-marine Late Maastrichtian of the Corbieres region of southern France; this allows the reconstruction of the succession of dinosaur faunas during the Maastrichtian in western Europe. An Early Maastrichtian fauna dominated by titanosaurid sauropods was replaced by a Late Maastrichtian assemblage dominated by hadrosaurs. This important faunal replacement seems to coincide with environmental changes (documented by sedimentological and palynological evidence) which have been linked to a marine regression during the Maastrichtian. T

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Potts, Richard. "Temporal span of bone accumulations at Olduvai Gorge and implications for early hominid foraging behavior." Paleobiology 12, no. 1 (1986): 25–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0094837300002955.

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Bones of mammals exhibit progressive stages of weathering during their time of subaerial exposure. Consequently, the study of bone weathering in fossil assemblages may help to assess the period represented by an accumulation of bones. Stages of bone decomposition due to subaerial weathering have been identified in assemblages of fossil macromammals from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. A modern bone assemblage collected by spotted hyenas is used to devise a method for recognizing attritional accumulations of bones from weathering characteristics. This method, which involves study of long bone diaphyse

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Sessa, Jocelyn A., Pedro M. Callapez, Pedro A. Dinis, and Austin J. W. Hendy. "Paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographical implications of a middle Pleistocene mollusc assemblage from the marine terraces of Baía Das Pipas, southwest Angola." Journal of Paleontology 87, no. 6 (November 2013): 1016–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/12-119.

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Quaternary raised marine terraces containing the remains of diverse, shallow water marine invertebrate faunas are widespread across the coast of Angola. These deposits and faunas have not been studied in the same detail as contemporaneous features in northwest and southernmost Africa. We analyzed the fossil assemblages and sedimentology of two closely spaced middle Pleistocene marine terrace deposits in Baía das Pipas, southwest Angola. This revealed 46 gastropod and 29 bivalve species, along with scleractinian corals, encrusting bryozoans, polychaete tubes, barnacles, and echinoids. The fauna

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Brett, Carlton E., Keith B. Miller, and Gordon C. Baird. "A Temporal Hierarchy of Paleoecologic Processes Within a Middle Devonian Epeiric Sea." Paleontological Society Special Publications 5 (1990): 178–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2475262200005505.

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Among the most intriguing and significant aspects of the marine stratigraphic record are patterns of temporal change in fossil assemblages and paleocommunities. Understanding the stratigraphic patterns and the correct temporal scale of such faunal change is crucial to interpreting the underlying processes involved. Inattention to the temporal scale at which paleontological data are collected, and at which faunal change is observed, often results in the use of entirely inappropriate explanatory models. In many cases modern ecological theories have been misapplied to the fossil record because pr

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Potts, Richard, and Alan Deino. "Mid-Pleistocene Change in Large Mammal Faunas of East Africa." Quaternary Research 43, no. 1 (January 1995): 106–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/qres.1995.1010.

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AbstractSingle-crystal 40Ar/39Ar age estimates of 392,000 ± 4000 to 330,000 ± 6000 yr from Lainyamok, a middle Pleistocene fossil locality in the southern Kenya rift, document the oldest evidence from sub-Saharan Africa of a diverse, large mammal fauna consisting entirely of extant species. The inferred age of this fauna implies an upper limit for extinction of species that characterize well-calibrated, mid-Pleistocene fossil assemblages in East Africa. For its age and species richness, the Lainyamok fauna is surprising for its lack of extinct forms (e.g., the bovine Pelorovis) well documented

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Osborn, Jo. "A Bayesian Approach to Andean Faunal Assemblages." Latin American Antiquity 30, no. 2 (June 2019): 354–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/laq.2019.21.

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Faunal assemblages offer rich data for exploring domestication, subsistence, ritual practice, and political economy. Issues of equifinality, however, frequently complicate interpretations because different agents and processes may create similar archaeological signatures. Analysts are often forced to make interpretations based on qualitative observations, which can be difficult to justify or replicate. I present an alternative method for classifying Andean assemblages by using ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological data to construct a Bayesian network model. The model is assessed usin

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Shott, Michael J. "The Quantification Problem in Stone-Tool Assemblages." American Antiquity 65, no. 4 (October 2000): 725–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2694424.

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How many tools does a lithic assemblage contain? The question is not as banal as it may seem, because tools were used as wholes but many are found broken. Pottery and faunal analysts have grappled with the problems of counting original wholes from mixed sets of whole and broken objects; lithic analysts lag behind. Assemblage size can change greatly depending on whether we count or ignore tool fragments. To systematize treatment of broken tools, I apply Orton’s pottery quantification method to several lithic assemblages and compare it to Portnoy’s MNT and raw counts. Methods do not agree in all

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Kelaher, B. P., M. G. Chapman, and A. J. Underwood. "Spatial patterns of diverse macrofaunal assemblages in coralline turf and their associations with environmental variables." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 81, no. 6 (December 2001): 917–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315401004842.

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Mats of articulated coralline algal turf are common on many rocky intertidal shores. The dense fronds provide a habitat for extremely diverse and abundant macrofaunal assemblages. Despite a large contribution to faunal biodiversity of rocky shores, little has been published about these assemblages. This study describes patterns of distribution and abundance of macrofauna in coralline turf on rocky shores around Sydney. In addition, the potential of environmental variables (sediment, epiphytes, length and density of coralline fronds) for determining these patterns was also investigated. Relativ

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Jarzembowski, Edmund. "Atlas of animals from the Late Westphalian of Writhlington, United Kingdom." Geologica Balcanica 34, no. 1-2 (June 30, 2004): 47–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.52321/geolbalc.34.1-2.47.

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Representative animals from the Writhlington assemblages are collectively illustrated for the first time with notes on palaeoecology, association and distribution. They are from a comparatively well sampled, terrestrial-fresh water fauna of nematodes, bivalvias, arthropods and vertebrates from the Upper Westphalian D of the UK. The Writhlington fauna provides a baseline for comparative faunal work in the Variskan Foreland.

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RAUSCH, LEA, MARIUS STOICA, and SERGEI LAZAREV. "A LATE MIOCENE – EARLY PLIOCENE PARATETHYAN TYPE OSTRACOD FAUNA FROM THE DENIZLI BASIN (SW ANATOLIA) AND ITS PALAEOGEOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS." Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, no. 16 (2) (April 22, 2020): 3–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.35463/j.apr.2020.02.01.

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The upper Miocene – lower Pliocene sedimentary succession of the Denizli Basin (SW Anatolia) displays a unique record of undisturbed stratigraphy and provides an excellent opportunity to study long-term palaeoecological changes. This paper documents the ostracod assemblages of two sections of the Neogene Kolankaya Formation, resulting in the following taxonomic, palaeobiogeographic and ecological interpretations. The ostracod assemblages from the two sections consist of a mixture of oligohaline to mesohaline tolerant taxa but expose fundamental differences in their composition. This is reflect

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Jass, Christopher N., James A. Burns, and Peter J. Milot. "Description of fossil muskoxen and relative abundance of Pleistocene megafauna in central Alberta." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 48, no. 5 (May 2011): 793–800. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e10-096.

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Significant work has gone into describing Ice Age faunas from Alberta, but relatively little work has been dedicated to understanding the actual structure of Quaternary faunal assemblages in the province. Development of such a data set is necessary to fully understand differences in faunal assemblages that existed before and after the last glacial maximum, and may eventually provide an important historical perspective for understanding the impact of large-scale ecosystem disturbance. Muskoxen fossils from central Alberta were examined to differentiate specimens of Bootherium and Ovibos . Those

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Kaminski, Michael A., Wolfgang Kuhnt, and Jon D. Radley. "Palaeocene–Eocene deep water agglutinated foraminifera from the Numidian Flysch (Rif, Northern Morocco): their significance for the palaeoceanography of the Gibraltar gateway." Journal of Micropalaeontology 15, no. 1 (April 1, 1996): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/jm.15.1.1.

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Abstract. A lower bathyal to abyssal agglutinated foraminiferal fauna (over 78 taxa belonging to 31 genera) is documented from Palaeocene–Eocene deep-water sediments of the Numidian Flysch (Talaa Lakrah Unit) in Northern Morocco. The sample locality is adjacent to the Strait of Gibraltar, which comprised an oceanic ‘gateway’ between the Tethys Ocean and the North Atlantic during the Palaeogene. The chronostratigraphy of the section is based upon long-distance comparisons with the stratigraphic ranges of identified species in the North Atlantic region and the Polish Carpathians. Although no maj

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SANJAYAN, M., LEAH H. SAMBERG, TIMOTHY BOUCHER, and JESSE NEWBY. "Intact Faunal Assemblages in the Modern Era." Conservation Biology 26, no. 4 (June 28, 2012): 724–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01881.x.

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Thompson, Jessica C., Nawa Sugiyama, and Gary S. Morgan. "Taphonomic Analysis of the Mammalian Fauna from Sandia Cave, New Mexico, and the “Sandia Man” Controversy." American Antiquity 73, no. 2 (April 2008): 337–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000273160004230x.

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Sandia Cave in New Mexico was excavated in the late 1930s by Frank Hibben, who described a unique type of chipped stone artifact-the “Sandia point”-in association with a faunal assemblage that included extinct Pleistocene species. The site was interpreted as a late Pleistocene Paleoindian hunting station, making it the earliest human occupation known in America at the time. Despite the pivotal role the faunal assemblage has played in interpretations of the site, there was never a confirmed behavioral association between the artifacts and the fossils. A subsequent series of controversies about

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Callomon, John H. "The ammonite succession in the Middle Jurassic of East Greenland." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 40 (June 3, 1993): 83–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.37570/bgsd-1994-40-03.

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The ammonite sequence in the Middle Jurassic of central East Greenland is the most complete and detailed known in the Arctic so far, and has become a standard of reference for the whole of the Bo real Faunal Province. It is made up of some 37 distinguishable assemblages that characterize a time-ordered succession of discrete faunal horizons. This succession has been pieced together from over 80 recorded sections in Jameson Land lying between Scoresby Sund and Kong Oscars Fjord (70-72°N). It forms the biostratigraphic basis for the regional chronostratigraphy. The faunal assemblages are listed

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Kaiser, M. J., P. J. Armstrong, P. J. Dare, and R. P. Flatt. "Benthic Communities Associated With a Heavily Fished Scallop Ground in the English Channel." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 78, no. 4 (November 1998): 1045–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400044313.

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A survey of benthic communities found in a heavily fished scallop ground was undertaken in July 1993. Two main faunal assemblages were identified from samples obtained with fine-meshed scallop dredges, which were grouped either in gravelly sand sediments or sandy sediment, which was generally furthest offshore in deeper water. A third assemblage was found in either sandy or gravelly muddy sand sediments. The highest abundance of small and large size-classes of scallops were associated with the assemblage containing the greatest number of species and individuals in sandy sediments. This assembl

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Armitage, Patrick D., Isabel Pardo, and Adrian Brown. "Temporal constancy of faunal assemblages in 'mesohabitats' - Application to management?" Archiv für Hydrobiologie 133, no. 3 (June 12, 1995): 367–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/archiv-hydrobiol/133/1995/367.

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Mauclaire, L., J. Gibert, and C. Claret. "Do bacteria and nutrients control faunal assemblages in alluvial aquifers?" Fundamental and Applied Limnology 148, no. 1 (April 13, 2000): 85–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/archiv-hydrobiol/148/2000/85.

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