2020
Reeves, J.C., Moon, B.C., Benton, M.J. and Stubbs, T.L. (2020), Evolution of ecospace occupancy by Mesozoic marine tetrapods. Palaeontology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12508
Michael J. Benton, The origin of endothermy in synapsids and archosaurs and arms races in the Triassic, Gondwana Research, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.08.003.
Venditti, C., Baker, J., Benton, M.J. et al. 150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency. Nature 587, 83–86 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2858-8
Jacopo Dal Corso, Massimo Bernardi, Yadong Sun, Haijun Song, Leyla J Seyfullah, Nereo Preto, Piero Gianolla, Alastair Ruffell, Evelyn Kustatscher, Guido Roghi, Agostino Merico, Sönke Hohn, Alexander R Schmidt, Andrea Marzoli, Robert J Newton, Paul B Wignall, Michael J Benton, Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic), Science Advances, 2020: Vol. 6, no. 38, eaba0099, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba0099
Marco Romano, Massimo Bernardi, Fabio Massimo Petti, Bruce Rubidge, John Hancox, Michael J. Benton, Early Triassic terrestrial tetrapod fauna: a review, Earth-Science Reviews, Volume 210, 2020, 103331, ISSN 0012-8252, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103331.
Xiaokang Liu, Haijun Song, David P.G. Bond, Jinnan Tong, Michael J. Benton, Migration controls extinction and survival patterns of foraminifers during the Permian-Triassic crisis in South China, Earth-Science Reviews, Volume 209, 2020, 103329, ISSN 0012-8252, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103329.
Lida Xing, Hendrik Klein, Martin G. Lockley, Xiao-chun Wu, Michael J. Benton, Rong Zeng, Anthony Romilio, Footprints of marine reptiles from the Middle Triassic (Anisian-Ladinian) Guanling Formation of Guizhou Province, southwestern China: The earliest evidence of synchronous style of swimming, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 558, 2020, 109943, ISSN 0031-0182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109943.
Zhu, Zhicai & Kuang, Hongwei & Liu, Yongqing & Benton, Michael & Newell, Andrew & Xu, Huan & An, Wei & Shichao, Xu & Peng, Nan & Zhai, Qingguo. (2020). Intensifying aeolian activity following the end Permian mass extinction: Evidence from the Late Permian-Early Triassic terrestrial sedimentary record of the Ordos Basin, North China. Sedimentology. 10.1111/sed.12716.
Li Tian, Michael J. Benton, Predicting biotic responses to future climate warming with classic ecogeographic rules, Current Biology, Volume 30, Issue 13, 2020, Pages R744-R749, ISSN 0960-9822, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.003.
Walker, F.M., Dunhill, A.M. and Benton, M.J. (2020), Variable preservation potential and richness in the fossil record of vertebrates. Palaeontology, 63: 313-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12458
Wignall, P.B., Chu, D.L., Hilton, J.M., Dal Corso, J., Wu, Y.Y., Wang, Y., Atkinson, J. and Tong, J.N. 2020. Death in the shallows: the record of Permo-Triassic mass extinction in paralic settings, southwest China. Global and Planetary Change 189, doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103176.
Dal Corso, J., Mills, B.J.W., Chu, D.L., Newton, R.J., Mather, T.A., Shu, W.C., Wu, Y.Y., Tong, J.N. & Wignall, P.B. 2020. Permo-Triassic boundary carbon and mercury cycling linked to terrestrial ecosystem collapse. Nature Comm. 11:2962. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16725-4
Zhou, Y., Pogge von Strandmann, P.A.E., Zhu, M., Ling, H., Manning, C., Li, D., He, T., and Shields, G.A., 2020, Reconstructing Tonian seawater 87Sr/86Sr using calcite microspar: Geology, v. 48, p. 462–467, doi: 10.1130/G46756.1
Chu, D., Grasby, S.E., Song, H., Corso, J.D., Wang, Y., Mather, T.A., Wu, Y., Song, H., Shu, W., Tong, J., and Wignall, P.B., 2020, Ecological disturbance in tropical peatlands prior to marine Permian-Triassic mass extinction: Geology, v. 48, p. 288–292, doi: 10.1130/G46631.1.
Fengbo Sun, Peng Peng, Xiqiang Zhou, A.J.C. Magalhães, F. Guadagnin, Xiaotong Zhou, Zhiyue Zhang, Xiangdong Su, Provenance analysis of the late Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic Xuhuai Basin in the southeast North China Craton: Implications for paleogeographic reconstruction, Precambrian Research, Volume 337,2020,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105554.
Chengsheng Jin, Chao Li, Thomas J. Algeo, Shiyong Wu, Meng Cheng, Zihu Zhang, Wei Shi. Controls on organic matter accumulation on the early-Cambrian western Yangtze Platform, South China. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2020, 111:75-87.
2019
Wu, Y., Tong, J., Algeo, T.J., Chu, D., Cui, Y., Song, H., Shu, W., and Du, Y., 2019, Organic carbon isotopes in terrestrial Permian-Triassic boundary sections of North China: Implications for global carbon cycle perturbations: GSA Bulletin, v. 132, p. 1106–1118, doi: 10.1130/B35228.1.
Guo, W., Tong, J., Tian, L., Chu, D., Bottjer, D.J., Shu, W., and Ji, K., 2019, Secular variations of ichnofossils from the terrestrial Late Permian–Middle Triassic succession at the Shichuanhe section in Shaanxi Province, North China: Global and Planetary Change, v. 181, p. 102978, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.102978.
Shields, G.A., Mills, B.J.W., Zhu, M. et al. Unique Neoproterozoic carbon isotope excursions sustained by coupled evaporite dissolution and pyrite burial. Nat. Geosci. 12, 823–827 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0434-3
Wood, R., Liu, A.G., Bowyer, F. et al. Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 528–538 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0821-6
Qiu, X., Tian, L., Wu, K., Benton, M.J., Sun, D., Yang, H. & Tong, J. 2019: Diverse earliest Triassic ostracod fauna of the non‐microbialite‐bearing shallow marine carbonates of the Yangou section, South China. Lethaia, Vol. 52, pp. 583– 596. https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12332
Xincheng Qiu, Yaling Xu, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Michael J. Benton, Wen Wen, Yuangeng Huang, Siqi Wu, The Early Triassic Jurong fish fauna, South China: Age, anatomy, taphonomy, and global correlation, Global and Planetary Change, Volume 180, 2019,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.05.012.
Jinyuan Huang, Shixue Hu, Qiyue Zhang, Philip C.J. Donoghue, Michael J. Benton, Changyong Zhou, Carlos Martínez-Pérez, Wen Wen, Tao Xie, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Mao Luo, Huazhou Yao, Kexin Zhang, Gondolelloid multielement conodont apparatus (Nicoraella) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan Province, southwestern China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 522, 2019, Pages 98-110, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.07.015.
Xueqian Feng, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Michael J. Benton, Siqi Wu, David J. Bottjer, Jeffrey R. Thompson, A diverse trackway-dominated marine ichnoassemblage from the Lower Triassic in the northern Paleotethys: Ichnology and implications for biotic recovery. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 519, 2019, Pages 124-140, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.059.
Daoliang Chu, Jinnan Tong, Michael J. Benton, Jianxin Yu, Yunfei Huang, Mixed continental-marine biotas following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction in South and North China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 519, 2019, Pages 95-107,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.10.028.
Li Tian, Jinnan Tong, Yifan Xiao, Michael J. Benton, Huyue Song, Haijun Song, Lei Liang, Kui Wu, Daoliang Chu, Thomas J. Algeo, Environmental instability prior to end-Permian mass extinction reflected in biotic and facies changes on shallow carbonate platforms of the Nanpanjiang Basin (South China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 519, 2019, Pages 23-36,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.05.011.
Zaher, M., Coram, R.A. and Benton, M.J. (2019), The Middle Triassic procolophonid Kapes bentoni: computed tomography of the skull and skeleton. Pap Palaeontol, 5: 111-138. doi:10.1002/spp2.1232
Wuu Kuang Soh,Charilaos Yiotis,†,Michelle Murray,†, Andrew Parnell, Ian J. Wright, Robert A. Spicer, Tracy Lawson, Rodrigo Caballero and Jennifer C. McElwain,Rising CO2 drives divergence in water use efficiency of evergreen and deciduous plants. Science Advances. 2019:Vol. 5, no. 12. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax7906
T. Su, A. Farnsworth, R. A. Spicer, J. Huang, F.-X. Wu, J. Liu, S.-F. Li, Y.-W. Xing, Y.-J. Huang, W.-Y.-D. Deng, H. Tang, C.-L. Xu, F. Zhao, G. Srivastava, P. J. Valdes, T. Deng, Z.-K. Zhou, No high Tibetan Plateau until the Neogene. Science Advances, 2019:Vol. 5, no. 3. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav2189
Mahasin Ali Khan, Meghma Bera, Robert A.Spicer, Teresa E.V.Spicer, Subir Bera, Palaeoclimatic estimates for a latest Miocene-Pliocene flora from the Siwalik Group of Bhutan: Evidence for the development of the South Asian Monsoon in the eastern Himalaya.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2019, 514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.10.019
GuoShuang-Xing, Robert A. Spicer, Mike Widdowson, Alexei B.Herman, Ksenia V.Domogatskaya, The composition of the middle Miocene (15 Ma) Namling paleoflora, South Central Tibet, in the context of other Tibetan and Himalayan Floras. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2019, 271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.06.011
Jia Liu,Tao Su, Robert A.Spicer, He Tang, Wei-Yu-Dong Deng, Fei-Xiang Wu, Gaurav Srivastava, Teresa Spicera, Truong Van Do, Tao Deng, Zhe-Kun Zhou, Biotic interchange through lowlands of Tibetan Plateau suture zones during Paleogene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2019, 524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.02.022
Na Li, Chao Li, Junxuan Fan, Thomas J. Algeo, Detian Yan, Guangyou Zhu, Shiyong Wu, Shida Tang, Meng Cheng, Chengsheng Jin. Sulfate-controlled marine euxinia in the semi-restricted inner Yangtze Sea (South China) during the Ordovician-Silurian transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2019, 534: 109281, DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109281.
H.J. Song, P.B. Wignall, H. Y. Song, X. Dai, D.L. Chu, Seawater temperature and dissolved oxygen over the past 500 million years. Journal of Earth Science, 2019, 30:236-243. DOI: 10.1007/s12583-018-1002-2
Y.D.Sun, M.J.Zulla, M.M.Joachimski, D.P.G.Bond, P.B.Wignall, Z.T.Zhang, M.H.Zhang. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2019, 518: 211-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.04.036.
Guo, W., Tong, J., Tian, L., Chu, D., Bottjer, D.J., Shu, W., and Ji, K., 2019, Secular variations of ichnofossils from the terrestrial Late Permian–Middle Triassic succession at the Shichuanhe section in Shaanxi Province, North China: Global and Planetary Change, v. 181, p. 102978, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.102978.
Shields, G.A., Mills, B.J.W., Zhu, M. et al. Unique Neoproterozoic carbon isotope excursions sustained by coupled evaporite dissolution and pyrite burial. Nat. Geosci. 12, 823–827 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0434-3
Wood, R., Liu, A.G., Bowyer, F. et al. Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 528–538 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0821-6
Qiu, X., Tian, L., Wu, K., Benton, M.J., Sun, D., Yang, H. & Tong, J. 2019: Diverse earliest Triassic ostracod fauna of the non‐microbialite‐bearing shallow marine carbonates of the Yangou section, South China. Lethaia, Vol. 52, pp. 583– 596. https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12332
Xincheng Qiu, Yaling Xu, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Michael J. Benton, Wen Wen, Yuangeng Huang, Siqi Wu, The Early Triassic Jurong fish fauna, South China: Age, anatomy, taphonomy, and global correlation, Global and Planetary Change, Volume 180, 2019,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.05.012.
Jinyuan Huang, Shixue Hu, Qiyue Zhang, Philip C.J. Donoghue, Michael J. Benton, Changyong Zhou, Carlos Martínez-Pérez, Wen Wen, Tao Xie, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Mao Luo, Huazhou Yao, Kexin Zhang, Gondolelloid multielement conodont apparatus (Nicoraella) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan Province, southwestern China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 522, 2019, Pages 98-110, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.07.015.
Xueqian Feng, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Michael J. Benton, Siqi Wu, David J. Bottjer, Jeffrey R. Thompson, A diverse trackway-dominated marine ichnoassemblage from the Lower Triassic in the northern Paleotethys: Ichnology and implications for biotic recovery. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 519, 2019, Pages 124-140, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.059.
Daoliang Chu, Jinnan Tong, Michael J. Benton, Jianxin Yu, Yunfei Huang, Mixed continental-marine biotas following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction in South and North China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 519, 2019, Pages 95-107,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.10.028.
Li Tian, Jinnan Tong, Yifan Xiao, Michael J. Benton, Huyue Song, Haijun Song, Lei Liang, Kui Wu, Daoliang Chu, Thomas J. Algeo, Environmental instability prior to end-Permian mass extinction reflected in biotic and facies changes on shallow carbonate platforms of the Nanpanjiang Basin (South China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 519, 2019, Pages 23-36,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.05.011.
Zaher, M., Coram, R.A. and Benton, M.J. (2019), The Middle Triassic procolophonid Kapes bentoni: computed tomography of the skull and skeleton. Pap Palaeontol, 5: 111-138. doi:10.1002/spp2.1232
Wuu Kuang Soh,Charilaos Yiotis,†,Michelle Murray,†, Andrew Parnell, Ian J. Wright, Robert A. Spicer, Tracy Lawson, Rodrigo Caballero and Jennifer C. McElwain,Rising CO2 drives divergence in water use efficiency of evergreen and deciduous plants. Science Advances. 2019:Vol. 5, no. 12. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax7906
T. Su, A. Farnsworth, R. A. Spicer, J. Huang, F.-X. Wu, J. Liu, S.-F. Li, Y.-W. Xing, Y.-J. Huang, W.-Y.-D. Deng, H. Tang, C.-L. Xu, F. Zhao, G. Srivastava, P. J. Valdes, T. Deng, Z.-K. Zhou, No high Tibetan Plateau until the Neogene. Science Advances, 2019:Vol. 5, no. 3. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav2189
Mahasin Ali Khan, Meghma Bera, Robert A.Spicer, Teresa E.V.Spicer, Subir Bera, Palaeoclimatic estimates for a latest Miocene-Pliocene flora from the Siwalik Group of Bhutan: Evidence for the development of the South Asian Monsoon in the eastern Himalaya.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2019, 514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.10.019
GuoShuang-Xing, Robert A. Spicer, Mike Widdowson, Alexei B.Herman, Ksenia V.Domogatskaya, The composition of the middle Miocene (15 Ma) Namling paleoflora, South Central Tibet, in the context of other Tibetan and Himalayan Floras. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2019, 271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.06.011
Jia Liu,Tao Su, Robert A.Spicer, He Tang, Wei-Yu-Dong Deng, Fei-Xiang Wu, Gaurav Srivastava, Teresa Spicera, Truong Van Do, Tao Deng, Zhe-Kun Zhou, Biotic interchange through lowlands of Tibetan Plateau suture zones during Paleogene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2019, 524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.02.022
Na Li, Chao Li, Junxuan Fan, Thomas J. Algeo, Detian Yan, Guangyou Zhu, Shiyong Wu, Shida Tang, Meng Cheng, Chengsheng Jin. Sulfate-controlled marine euxinia in the semi-restricted inner Yangtze Sea (South China) during the Ordovician-Silurian transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2019, 534: 109281, DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109281.
H.J. Song, P.B. Wignall, H. Y. Song, X. Dai, D.L. Chu, Seawater temperature and dissolved oxygen over the past 500 million years. Journal of Earth Science, 2019, 30:236-243. DOI: 10.1007/s12583-018-1002-2
Y.D.Sun, M.J.Zulla, M.M.Joachimski, D.P.G.Bond, P.B.Wignall, Z.T.Zhang, M.H.Zhang. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2019, 518: 211-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.04.036.
2018
Michael J. Benton, Hyperthermal-driven mass extinctions: killing models during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction. 376. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0076
Yifan Xiao, Kui Wu, Li Tian, Michael J. Benton, Yong Du, Hao Yang, Jinnan Tong, Framboidal pyrite evidence for persistent low oxygen levels in shallow-marine facies of the Nanpanjiang Basin during the Permian-Triassic transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 511, 2018, Pages 243-255, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.08.012.
Wang, D., Ling, H., Struck, U. et al. Publisher Correction: Coupling of ocean redox and animal evolution during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Nat Commun 9, 3395 (2018) doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05540-7
Guang-Yi Wei, Noah J. Planavsky, Lidya G. Tarhan, Xi Chen, Wei Wei, Da Li, and Hong-Fei Ling, Marine redox fluctuation as a potential trigger for the Cambrian explosion. Geology, 2018(46). https://doi.org/10.1130/G40150.1
Wei Wei, Robert Frei, Tian-Yu Chen, Robert Klaebe, Huan Liu, Da Li, Guang-Yi Wei, Hong-FeiLing, Marine ferromanganese oxide: A potentially important sink of lightchromium isotopes? Chemical Geology, 2018, 495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.08.006
Mingtao Li, Haijun Song, Thomas J. Algeo, Paul B. Wignall, Xu Dai, and Adam D. Woods, A dolomitization event at the oceanic chemocline during the Permian-Triassic transition. Geology, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1130/G45479.1
J. Roberts , A. V. Turchyn , P. B. Wignall , R. J. Newton , and C. H. Vane, Disentangling Diagenesis From the Rock Record: An Example From the Permo-Triassic Wordie Creek Formation, East Greenland. Geocemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/ 2017GC007259.
H.J. Song, P.B. Wignall, A.M. Dunhill, Decoupled taxonomic and ecological recoveries from the Permo-Triassic extinction. Science advances, 2018. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat5091
Zihu Zhang, Chao Li, Meng Cheng, Thomas J. Algeo, Chengsheng Jin, Feng Tang, Junhua Huang. Evidence for highly complex redox conditions and strong water-column stratification in an early Cambrian continental-margin sea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2018, 19: 2397–2410. DOI: 10.1029/2018GC007666.
Chao Li, Meng Cheng, Maoyan Zhu and Timothy W. Lyons. Heterogeneous and dynamic marine shelf oxygenation and coupled early animal evolution. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2018, 2(2):279-288. DOI: 10.1042/ETLS20170157.
Jin Chengsheng, Chao Li, Thomas J. Algeo, Brennan O'Connell, Meng Cheng, Wei Shi, Jun Shen, Noah J. Planavsky. Highly heterogeneous “poikiloredox” conditions in the early Ediacaran Yangtze Sea. Precambrian Research, 2018, 31:157-166.
Wei Shi, Cha1o Li, Genming Luo, Junhua Huang, Thomas J. Algeo, Chengsheng Jin, Zihu Zhang, and Meng Cheng. Sulfur isotope evidence for transient marine-shelf oxidation during the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion. Geology, 2018, 46(3):267-270. DOI:10.1130/G39663.1.
Meng Cheng, Chao Li, Xi Chen, Lian Zhou, Thomas J. Algeo, Hong-Fei Ling, Lian-Jun Feng, Cheng-Sheng Jin, Delayed Neoproterozoic oceanic oxygenation: Evidence from Mo isotopes of the Cryogenian Datangpo Formation. Precambrian Research, 2018, 319:187-197.
Ding W-N, Kunzmann L, Su T, Huang J, Zhou Z-K, 2018. A new fossil species of Cryptomeria (Cupressaceae) from the Rupelian of the Lühe Basin, Yunnan, East Asia: Implications for palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 248: 41-51.
Ding W-N, Huang J, Su T, Xing Y-W, Zhou Z-K, 2018. An early Oligocene occurrence of the palaeoendemic genus Dipteronia (Sapindaceae) from Southwest China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 249: 16-23.
Jia L-B, Su T, Huang Y-J, Wu F-X, Deng T, Zhou Z-K, 2018. First fossil record of Cedrelospermum (Ulmaceae) from the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau: Implications for morphological evolution and biogeography. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, in press.
Jiang H, Su T, Wong, WO, Wu F, Huang J, Shi G-L, 2018. Oligocene Koelreuteria (Sapindaceae) from the Lunpola Basin in central Tibet and its implication for early diversification of the genus. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences (in press).
Li S-F, Xing Y-W, Valdes P J, Huang Y-J, Su T, Farnsworth A, Lunt D J, Tang H, Kennedy A T, Zhou Z-K, 2018. Oligocene climate signals and forcings in Eurasia revealed by plant macrofossil and modelling results. Gondwana Research, 61: 115-127.
Linnemann U, Su T, Kunzmann L, Spicer RA, Ding W-N, Spicer TEV, Zieger J, Hofmann M, Moraweck K, Gärtner A, Gerdes A, Marko L, Zhang S-T, Li S-F, Tang H, Huang J, Mulch A, Mosbrugger V, Zhou Z-K, 2018. New U-Pb dates show a Paleogene origin for the modern Asian biodiversity hot spots. Geology, 46: 3-6.
Mahasin Ali Khan, Meghma Bera, Robert A.Spicer, Teresa E.V.Spicer, Subir Bera,Evidence of simultaneous occurrence of tylosis formation and fungal interaction in a late Cenozoic angiosperm from the eastern Himalaya. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 2018, 259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2018.10.004
O’Reilly, J. E., Puttick, M. N., Pisani, D., and Donoghue, P. C. J., 2018, Empirical realism of simulated data is more important than the model used to generate it. A reply to Goloboff et al.: Palaeontology.
Purnell, M. A., Donoghue, P. J. C., Gabbott, S. E., McNamara, M. E., Murdock, D. J. E., Sansom, R. S., and Smith, A., 2018, Experimental analysis of soft-tissue fossilization: opening the black box: Palaeontology, v. 61, no. 3, p. 317-323.
Shu et al., Limuloid trackways from Permian-Triassic continental successions of North China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. in press
Song et al., Taxonomic and ecological variations of Permian-Triassic transitional bivalve communities from the littoral clastic facies in southwestern China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. in press
Su T, Spicer R A, Li S-H, Xu H, Huang J, Sherlock S, Huang Y-J, Li S-F, Wang L, Jia L-B, Deng W-Y-D, Liu J, Deng C-L, Zhang S-T, Valdes P J, Zhou Z-K, 2018. Uplift, Climate and Biotic Changes at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition in Southeast Tibet. National Science Review, in press, doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwy062.
Su T, Li S-F, Tang H, Huang Y-J, Li S-H, Deng C-L, Zhou Z-K, 2018. Hemitrapa Miki (Lythraceae) from the earliest Oligocene of southeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its phytogeographic implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, in press.
Tian et al., Environmental instability prior to end-Permian mass extinction reflected in biotic and facies changes on shallow carbonate platforms of the Nanpanjiang Basin (South China), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. in press
Yifan Xiao, Kui Wu, Li Tian, Michael J. Benton, Yong Du, Hao Yang, Jinnan Tong, Framboidal pyrite evidence for persistent low oxygen levels in shallow-marine facies of the Nanpanjiang Basin during the Permian-Triassic transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 511, 2018, Pages 243-255, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.08.012.
Wang, D., Ling, H., Struck, U. et al. Publisher Correction: Coupling of ocean redox and animal evolution during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Nat Commun 9, 3395 (2018) doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05540-7
Guang-Yi Wei, Noah J. Planavsky, Lidya G. Tarhan, Xi Chen, Wei Wei, Da Li, and Hong-Fei Ling, Marine redox fluctuation as a potential trigger for the Cambrian explosion. Geology, 2018(46). https://doi.org/10.1130/G40150.1
Wei Wei, Robert Frei, Tian-Yu Chen, Robert Klaebe, Huan Liu, Da Li, Guang-Yi Wei, Hong-FeiLing, Marine ferromanganese oxide: A potentially important sink of lightchromium isotopes? Chemical Geology, 2018, 495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.08.006
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