This is the first Palaeozoic spider from Germany, the next oldest coming from the Mesozoic (Jurassic). Spiders are one of nature’s great success stories, with more than 51,000 species described ...

More information: Richard P. Dearden et al, The three-dimensionally articulated oral apparatus of a Devonian heterostracan sheds light on feeding in Palaeozoic jawless fishes, Proceedings of the ...

Sarıgül, Volkan 2018. New archosauromorph fragments from the Dockum Group of Texas and assessment of the earliest dinosaurs in North America. Historical Biology, Vol. 30, Issue. 8, p. 1059. Marchetti, ...

Echinoids remained only a very minor element of the benthos throughout the Palaeozoic and are never common as fossils. Although all had a lantern of some sorts it was not a particularly strong or ...

This not only marked the end of the Permian period and the start of the Triassic, it was such a serious catastrophe that it is used as the marker of the end of a geologic era, the palaeozoic era.

Deposited some 248 million years ago, tight gas formations are typically found in Palaeozoic formations. Over time, the rock formations have been compacted and have undergone cementation and ...

The eastern part of the area is composed of Palaeozoic limestones. The western part features sedimentary rocks, pillow basalts, ultra-mafic and granitic intrusions rich in minerals and hydrothermal ...

The karst formation of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park has evolved since the Palaeozoic (some 400 million years ago) and so is the oldest major karst area in Asia. Subject to massive tectonic changes, ...

At the Environmental Science Center (ESC), palaeontologist and centre director Hamad Al-Saad and geologist Fadhil Sadooni have been studying data on rock strata dating back to the Palaeozoic era ...

Eastward prospecting of Timok East beyond the Jurassic and Cretaceous limestones has revealed further targets of interest in Palaeozoic metasedimentary and ophiolitic rocks. Results of the current ...

This is a synapomorphy for the crown group of the Echinoidea, and is also true for all post-Palaeozoic echinoids, bar one, Tiarechinus. By contrast almost all Palaeozoic echinoids have a test which ...