Wikidata offers a centralized, accessible platform for working collaboratively to disambiguate entities, e.g., people associated with biodiversity collections, and mobilize information about them. This shared can be used improve connections across institutions individuals, augment local data records, encourage expertise-sharing. Over the past year, Paleo Data Working Group has organized several...

a State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China b Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology of Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China c Institute for the Environment, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom d Research Center of...

Jeremy Sanders1, Jon Blundy2, Anne Donaldson3, Steve Brown4, Rob Ivison5,6, Miles Padgett7, Kevin Padian8, Katrin Rittinger9, Kerry Rowe10, Anthony Stace11, Essi Viding12, Chris Chambers13 and Mark Chaplain14 1Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK 2School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 3Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberde...

The fossil record provides a powerful basis for analyzing the controlling factors and impact of biological evolution over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales and in the context of an evolving Earth. An increasingly interdisciplinary paleontology has begun to formulate the next generation of questions, drawing on a wealth of new data, and on methodological advances ranging from high-reso...

For centuries, one of the main questions in relation to the Earth’s biological diversity has been disentangling the causes for the comparatively high diversity in tropical zones, particularly the Neotropics. This volume aimed to demonstrate how molecular phylogenetics, phylogeography, paleontology, and paleoecology contribute to our understanding of the processes that gave rise diversity in the...

Ediacara fossils document an important evolutionary episode just before the Cambrian explosion and hold critical information about the early evolution of macroscopic and complex multicellular life. They also represent an enduring controversy in paleontology. How are the Ediacara fossils related to living animals? How did they live? Do they share any evolutionary patterns with other life forms? ...