Organically preserved algal microfossils from the Ringwood evaporite deposit in the Gillen Member of the Bitter Springs Formation (late Precambrian of central Australia) are of small size, low diversity, and probable prokaryotic affinities. These rather primitive characteristics appear to reflect the stressful conditions that prevailed in a periodically stagnant, hypersaline lagoon. This assemb...

The recently recognized aetosaur Tecovasuchus chatterjeei Martz and Small occurs at several localities in lower Chinle Group strata across Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Based on lithostratigraphic correlation and other vertebrate occurrences, all Tecovasuchus occurrences are of Adamanian age. Indeed, all occurrences are consistent with assignment to the St. Johnsian sub-land vertebrate faunac...

At Podsused near Zagreb, in an abandoned surface excavation of cement marls, near Kostanjek (Fig. 1) an 83 m thick lithostratigraphical column was investigated comprising layers of Sarmatian and Pannonian age. Five lithofacies units (A, AB, B, C, D) were separated on the basis of their structural-petrographic characteristics. From layers with greater concentrations of fossils, a rich community ...

This issue of Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology is devoted to papers on the Permian– Triassic boundary crisis and Early Triassic biotic recovery. It is an outgrowth of the Symposium on Early Triassic Chronostratigraphy and Biotic Recovery that was held in Chaohu, China, on May 21st–23rd, 2005 under the auspices of IGCP Project 467 and attended by about 200 Earth scientists with a ...

This monograph has been compiled by members of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group (hereafter referred to as the Working Group) of the International Subcommission on Paleogene Stratigraphy, International Union of Geological Sciences. It is the second such work in a projected series of three, the first being the Atlas of Paleocene Planktonic Foraminifera published by Smithsonian ...

We study the problem of imposing conversational goals/keywords on open-domain agents, where agent is required to lead conversation a target keyword smoothly and fast. Solving this enables application agents in many real-world scenarios, e.g., recommendation psychotherapy. The dominant paradigm for tackling 1) train next-turn classifier, 2) keyword-augmented response retrieval model. However, ex...