Normal giants? Temporal and latitudinal shifts of Palaeozoic marine invertebrate gigantism and global change

Revision of Permo-Carboniferous griffenflies (Insecta: Odonatoptera: Meganisoptera) based upon new species and redescription of selected poorly known taxa from Eurasia

(2016) André Nel et al.   PALAEONTOGRAPHICA ABTEILUNG A-PALAOZOOLOGIE-STRATIGRAPHIE

Emsian Ammonoidea and the age of the Hunsrück Slate (Rhenish Mountains, Western Germany)

(2016) Kenneth De Baets et al.   PALAEONTOGRAPHICA ABTEILUNG A-PALAOZOOLOGIE-STRATIGRAPHIE

Oxygen escape from the Earth during geomagnetic reversals: Implications to mass extinction

(2014) Yong Wei et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Middle Ordovician cephalopod biofacies and palaeoenvironments of Baltoscandia

(2014) Björn Kröger et al.   LETHAIA

Why polar gigantism and Palaeozoic gigantism are not equivalent: effects of oxygen and temperature on the body size of ectotherms

(2013) Wilco C. E. P. Verberk et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The influence of reefs on the rise of Mesozoic marine crustaceans

(2013) A. A. Klompmaker et al.   GEOLOGY

Diversity and body size in giant caviomorphs (Rodentia) from the northern Neotropics—a study of femoral variation

(2013) M. Geiger et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Mitochondrial genome diversity and population structure of the giant squid Architeuthis: genetics sheds new light on one of the most enigmatic marine species

(2013) I. Winkelmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

EARLY EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS IN AMMONOID EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT

(2012) Kenneth De Baets et al.   EVOLUTION

Why might they be giants? Towards an understanding of polar gigantism

(2012) Amy L. Moran et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Environmental determinants of latitudinal size-trends in cephalopods

(2012) R Rosa et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Environmental and biotic controls on the evolutionary history of insect body size

(2012) M. E. Clapham et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxygen supply in aquatic ectotherms: Partial pressure and solubility together explain biodiversity and size patterns

(2011) Wilco C. E. P. Verberk et al.   ECOLOGY

A giant Ordovician anomalocaridid

(2011) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

Was the Devonian radiation of large predatory fish a consequence of rising atmospheric oxygen concentration?

(2011) N. J. Butterfield   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Taxonomic Structure of the Fossil Record is Shaped by Sampling Bias

(2011) Graeme T. Lloyd et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Devonian Pearls and Ammonoid-Endoparasite Co-Evolution

(2010) Kenneth De Baets et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Latitudinal clines in body size, but not in thermal tolerance or heat-shock cognate 70 (HSC70), in the highly-dispersing intertidal gastropod Littorina keenae (Gastropoda: Littorinidae)

(2010) HYUK JE LEE et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism

(2010) P. Martin Sander et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Zlíchovian faunas with early ammonoids from Morocco and their use for the correlation of the eastern Anti-Atlas and the western Dra Valley

(2010) K. De Baets et al.   BULLETIN OF GEOSCIENCES

Effect of nutrient availability on marine origination rates throughout the Phanerozoic eon

(2010) Andrés L. Cárdenas et al.   Nature Geoscience

The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective

(2010) Jonathan L. Payne et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish

(2010) T. W. Dahl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Atmospheric oxygen level and the evolution of insect body size

(2010) J. F. Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups

(2010) J. Alroy   SCIENCE

100-Million-Year Dynasty of Giant Planktivorous Bony Fishes in the Mesozoic Seas

(2010) M. Friedman et al.   SCIENCE

Is Diet Quality an Overlooked Mechanism for Bergmann’s Rule?

(2009) Chuan‐Kai Ho et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Cope's Rule and Romer's theory: patterns of diversity and gigantism in eurypterids and Palaeozoic vertebrates

(2009) J. C. Lamsdell et al.   Biology Letters

Oxygen, animals and oceanic ventilation: an alternative view

(2009) N. J. BUTTERFIELD   Geobiology

Giant trilobites and trilobite clusters from the Ordovician of Portugal

(2009) Juan C. Gutiérrez-Marco et al.   GEOLOGY

Cephalopods and paleoenvironments of the Fort Cassin Formation (upper Lower Ordovician), eastern New York and adjacent Vermont

(2009) Björn Kröger et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

The Devonian nekton revolution

(2009) CHRISTIAN KLUG et al.   LETHAIA

Fecundity selection predicts Bergmann's rule in syngnathid fishes

(2009) ANTHONY B. WILSON   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Giant boid snake from the Palaeocene neotropics reveals hotter past equatorial temperatures

(2009) Jason J. Head et al.   NATURE

Bergmann's rule; a concept cluster?

(2009) Cortney Watt et al.   OIKOS

Pulsed cephalopod diversification during the Ordovician

(2009) Björn Kröger et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Radiolarians decreased silicification as an evolutionary response to reduced Cenozoic ocean silica availability

(2009) D. B. Lazarus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2Problem

(2008) Scott C. Doney et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

The evolution of body size under environmental gradients in ectotherms: why should Bergmann's rule apply to lizards?

(2008) Daniel Pincheira-Donoso et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Ordovician and Silurian nautiloid cephalopods from Anticosti Island: traject across the Ordovician–Silurian (O–S) mass extinction boundary

(2008) Charles Hepworth Holland et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Compilation and time-series analysis of a marine carbonate δ18O, δ13C, 87Sr/86Sr and δ34S database through Earth history

(2008) A. Prokoph et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ecological biogeography of cephalopod molluscs in the Atlantic Ocean: historical and contemporary causes of coastal diversity patterns

(2008) Rui Rosa et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Ordovician Biodiversification: revolution in the oceanic trophic chain

(2008) THOMAS SERVAIS et al.   LETHAIA

The rise of atmospheric oxygen

(2008) Lee R. Kump   NATURE

Ecosystem-wide body-size trends in Cambrian–Devonian marine invertebrate lineages

(2008) Philip M. Novack-Gottshall   PALEOBIOLOGY

Scale-dependence of Cope's rule in body size evolution of Paleozoic brachiopods

(2008) P. M. Novack-Gottshall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity

(2008) J. L. Payne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PALEONTOLOGY: Sauropod Gigantism

(2008) P. M. Sander et al.   SCIENCE

A Chronology of Paleozoic Sea-Level Changes

(2008) B. U. Haq et al.   SCIENCE

Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropod

(2007) S. J Braddy et al.   Biology Letters