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The palaeodiversity of Agaricales: evidence from mushrooms and mycophagous beetles in amber
Mushrooms, or Agaricomycetes, are common, conspicuous and morphologically diverse fungi. Most agaricomycete fruiting bodies are ephemeral, so they are extremely rare in fossils. Up to now, all described species of gilled mushrooms, or Agaricales, have been known exclusively from amber. Among them...

Specialized beetles shed light on predator–prey associations in the Cretaceous
Recently, a research team led by researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has found a new morphologically specialized beetle from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, shedding new light on the predator–prey associations in the late Me...

Global microbial carbonate proliferation after the end Devonian mass extinction
A severe mass extinction event happened during the Devonian-Carboniferous transition (about 359 Ma heretofore), which causes the extinction of >45% genera and ~21% of marine invertebrate families. Typical sedimentary rocks from the Rhenish Massif, western German, are global distributed (Hangenbe...

Fossil wood Xenoxylon indicates a palaeoclimatic cooling event in 200 Ma
Fossil wood is among the significant proxies for terrestrial paleoclimate and paleogeographical reconstruction in Earth history. Abundant and diversified Mesozoic fossil woods are well recorded in China; however, Triassic fossil wood is rare.
　　A Sino-French research team leading by Prof. WANG...

New progress on the distribution and evolution of the Carboniferous reefs in South China
Stromatoporoid-coral reef ecosystems have collapsed and disappeared during the Frasnian-Famennian and Hangenberg mass extinction events during the late Devonian and Devonian-Carboniferous transition, respectively. In addition, prominent glacial and interglacial events accompanied by frequent sea-...

Fossil treasure-trove reveals post-extinction world ruled by sponges

　　Diverse 444 million-year-old sponges from the Anji Biota of China, thriving as everything around them died (by Botting, J. P.)
　　New deposits with exceptionally well-preserved fossil communities are always exciting, but some are more interesting than others. Windows into particularly impor...

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