Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Biology

 

Aerobacter spp. and cloud formation

Amphibians

Archaean

Evolution of Avian Reproductive Behaviour - Preserved Avian ovarian follicles

Microbial Carbon Turnover - High Rates in Sediments in Deepest Oceanic Trench

Biological History

Birds

Bird or Dinosaur

Botanical History

Carbon Dioxide Sequestering in Botany Bay

Carboniferous

Cretaceous Australia

The Great Oxidation Event - Evolution of Multicellularity Coincided with an Increase of Cyanobacterial Diversification

Darwin's Visit to Australia

Deuterostome Relationships

Dinosaurs

Dicynodonts - mammal-like reptiles (therapsids)

Deuterostome Relationships

Devonian Australia

Ecosystems

Emu Bay Fossils

ERVs - endogenous retroviruses - and the evolution of mammals

Rise of eukaryotes

Extant Phylogenetic Bracket (EPB)

Fauna

Fish

Flora

Fossil Eyes

Fossil Sites

Gorgonopsida

Haikouichthys and Related Forms

Ice Age Biotas

Jurassic Australia

How Life Controls the Atmosphere

Cephalochordates - Lancelets

Mass Extinctions

Oldest Well-preserved fossils

Permian Mass Extinctions

Permian Mass Extinction - Marusek Hypothesis

Permian-Triassic Superanoxic Event - The Preference of Photic Zone Euxinia

Photic Zone Euxinia - Their role in Exceptional Preservation of Fossils Revealed by Biomarkers: An Organic Chemical Perspective

Protein Sparing

Origin of Paired Limbs

Reptiles

Silurian

Southern Ocean Plankton

Stromatolites

Terminal Cretaceous Event

Therapsid

Triassic Australia

Tunicates - Urochordates

Vertebrate Head

Vertebrate Origins & Development - paedomorphosis

Sources & Further reading

Links

The origin of the Metazoa in light of the Proterozoic fossil record