Rainforest collapse triggered Carboniferous tetrapod diversification in Euramerica

By Sarda Sahney, Michael Benton, H. Falcon-Lang. 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology

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Climatic niche conservatism and the evolutionary dynamics in species range boundaries: global congruence across mammals and amphibians (2011, background): “Sahney et al. (2010) have suggested that climate aridification through the later Palaeozoic, which eventually led to the collapse of Carboniferous Coal Forests, favoured the ecological diversification of amniotes (reptiles) but had devastating effects on amphibian faunas.”
Horseshoe crab phylogeny and independent colonizations of fresh water: ecological invasion as a driver for morphological innovation (2016, background): “These factors combined would explain the proliferation of belinurines during the Carboniferous and the manner by which both bellinurines and austrolimulids occupied previously unexplored regions of morphospace.”
The first half of tetrapod evolution, sampling proxies, and fossil record quality (2013, background): “5 Myr ago (51 to 24 genera, 47% reduction), generated almost entirely by a major decline among the ‘amphibians’, with a loss of 40 out of 44 genera (91%) – this has been identified (Sahney et al., 2010) as a time of profound aridification of the Earth when the characteristic lush, tropical ‘coal for”
The plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction events (2014, background): “The first of them is detected at the Carboniferous-Permian transition, which is interpreted as a conse- quence of the collapse of the tropical wetlands in Euramerica (Cleal et al., 2010, 2011; Sahney et al., 2010), which hosted the taxonomically most diverse known vegetation of Pennsylvanian age (Cl”