The Coal Farms of the Late Paleozoic

Gastaldo, Robert A.; Bamford, Marion K.; Calder, John H.; DiMichele, William A.; Iannuzzi, Roberto; Jasper, André; Kerp, Hans; McLoughlin, Stephen; Opluštil, Stanislav; Pfefferkorn, Hermann W.; Rößler, Ronny; Wang, Jun

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“…Hemiptera is also considered herbivorous insects by comparison with their extant counterparts (Jouault et al , 2022). These insect faunas colonized coastal plain landscape during climatic amelioration intervals that occurred throughout Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) in Gondwana (Ricetti, 2016; Gastaldo et al , 2020).…”

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Late Paleozoic–Early Mesozoic Insects: State of the Art on Paleoentomological Studies in Southern South America

Lara¹,

Cariglino²,

Zavattieri³

2023

Ameghiniana

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A state of the art of the insects collected and described from different Permian and Triassic units in South America is given, accompanied by their brief historical record (e.g., collectors, taxonomic revision) and new high-quality photos in color. Likewise, we succinctly provide data on the paleodiversity and paleoecology of the entomological assemblages from the different units. Finally, we discuss the South American paleoentomological records in relation to equivalent deposits worldwide. The thorough, updated review of fossil insect faunas in this paper will help settling the bases for future taxonomic, diversity, and ecological studies during a time that comprised the evolutionary history of insects through two key episodes of the geological record: the end-Permian mass extinction (EPME, ~252 Ma) and the Carnian Pluvial Event (CPE, ~234-232 Ma).

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Late Paleozoic–Early Mesozoic Insects: State of the Art on Paleoentomological Studies in Southern South America

Lara¹,

Cariglino²,

Zavattieri³

2023

Ameghiniana

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“…Therefore these plants are often considered to have been adapted to cold climate. However, these plants commonly display large, complete, non-toothed leaves which are typical of warm-weather plants, possibly subtropical or trop-ical, and not small, toothed leaves indicative of polar/subpolar climates (Götz et al, 2018;DeVore & Pigg, 2020;Gastaldo et al, 2020aGastaldo et al, , 2020bMays et al, 2020;Tripathy et al, 2021). Plants are better climate indicators than sediments, which would undermine interpretations of former cold climates in the Late Palaeozoic.…”

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Patterns, processes and models - an analytical review of current ambiguous interpretations of the evidence for pre-Pleistocene glaciations

Molén

2023

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Models (paradigms) and former interpretations have often been presupposed when conducting field research. In the 19th century diamictites were for the first time interpreted to have originated from ancient glaciations. These interpretations have to a large part prevailed in the geological community, although there has been much progress in the areas of sedimentology, glaciology and physical geography. The present work is an effort to find criteria which most clearly discriminate between geological features produced by different processes, mainly glaciation and mass flow, the latter predominantly sediment gravity flows. Geological features which have been interpreted to have formed by glaciation throughout pre-Pleistocene Earth history are compared to similar-appearing geological features formed by mass flow and tectonics, so as to uncover variations in the appearance between features resulting from these different processes. The starting point for this comparison is documentation of the appearance of Quaternary products of erosion and deposition, in order to discern the origin of older formations. It is shown that the appearance and origin of pavements, dropstones, valleys, small-scale landforms, surface microtextures and most other geological features may in some cases be equivocal, but in others the details are indicative of the process which generated the feature. Detailed geological field data which have been compiled by geologists from outcrops of pre-Pleistocene strata, more often than is considered in most papers, commonly point to a mass flow origin, mainly a sediment gravity flow origin, rather than a glaciogenic origin. A process of multiple working hypotheses or interpretations is therefore advocated, based mainly on a comparison of the appearance of features formed by different geological processes documented from different research disciplines. Instead of starting with current interpretations or models, this multiple working hypothesis or methodology helps to avoid confirmation bias and jumping to conclusions.

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Carboniferous tetrapod footprints

Lucas,

Stimson

2025

Vertebrate Ichnology

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The Coal Farms of the Late Paleozoic

Cited by 9 publications

References 77 publications

Late Paleozoic–Early Mesozoic Insects: State of the Art on Paleoentomological Studies in Southern South America

Late Paleozoic–Early Mesozoic Insects: State of the Art on Paleoentomological Studies in Southern South America

Patterns, processes and models - an analytical review of current ambiguous interpretations of the evidence for pre-Pleistocene glaciations

Carboniferous tetrapod footprints

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