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Early Triassic Echinoids Of The Western United States: Their Implications For Paleoecology And The Habitable Zone Hypothesis Following The Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction, Jenna Rolle
Theses and Dissertations
Confronted with global climate change and ocean acidification, our collective knowledge of ecosystem response during times of environmental crisis in Earth's ancient past may provide insights towards combating ecological degradation in modern oceans. Early Triassic marine environments were characterized by oceanic warming due in part to elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 and periodic intervals of localized anoxia, resulting in an overall restructuring of faunal dominance, distribution, and biodiversity. Re-assembly of ecological communities during the Early Triassic are largely unknown; however, a previous paleoecological study by Tyler Beatty et al. (2008), suggests that post-extinction recovery length was minimized in shallow …
Sedimentology And Paleoecology Of Fossil-Bearing, High-Latitude Marine And Glacially Influenced Deposits In The Tepuel Basin, Patagonia, Argentina, Kathryn N. Pauls
Sedimentology And Paleoecology Of Fossil-Bearing, High-Latitude Marine And Glacially Influenced Deposits In The Tepuel Basin, Patagonia, Argentina, Kathryn N. Pauls
Theses and Dissertations
The glacial and non-glacial intervals of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) are of great interest because they are our best deep time analogue for Pleistocene climate change. The changes and adaptations of the biota, as seen in the rock record, can serve as a proxy for understanding future trends in Earth's climate system. Most of the known LPIA marine faunal data come from low-latitudinal regions, and thus have been used as a global proxy. However, modern organisms in the low-latitudes (far-field basins) respond differently to a changing climate relative to marine organisms in the polar regions (near-field basins). In …