Response of macrobenthic communities to the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in northeastern Panthalassa (Ya Ha Tinda, Alberta, Canada)

Stratigraphic and environmental control on marine benthic community change through the early Toarcian extinction event (Iberian Range, Spain)

“…1B;Gómez and Goy 2005). This platform system was connected eastward with the Tethyan Ocean, to the north with the Arctic, through the so-called Viking Corridor (Callomon 1979) or "Laurasian Seaway" (Bjerrum et al 2001), and to the west with South America through the Hispanic Corridor, which had probably been intermittently open since the Sinemurian/Pliensbachian boundary (Aberhan 2001;Damborenea 2002;Martindale and Aberhan 2017).…”

“…This time interval is also characterised by a second-order extinction event affecting both pelagic and benthic organisms (Little and Benton 1995;Cecca and Macchioni 2004;Caswell et al 2009;García Joral et al 2011;Caruthers et al 2013;Danise et al 2013;Martindale and Aberhan 2017;Dunhill et al 2018a). Anoxia has been considered the main cause of the marine extinction, as the event was firstly recognised in settings characterised by the deposition of widespread organic rich black shales (e.g., Little and Benton 1995).…”

“Taphonomy: Dead and fossilized”: A new board game designed to teach college undergraduate students about the process of fossilization

“…The game is based on the Early Jurassic Ya Ha Tinda Lagerst€ atte from Alberta, Canada (Martindale, Them, Gill, Marroqu ın, & Knoll, 2017), which connects the player to real paleontological research. The board and environmental events are representative of possible conditions in a Jurassic marine setting, and the pieces represent the Ya Ha Tinda fossils ( Figure 2) (e.g., Marroqu ın, Martindale, & Fuchs, 2018;Martindale & Aberhan, 2017;Maxwell & Martindale, 2017). Although there are some simplifications for gameplay, the game closely follows the stages of fossilization (e.g., organism death, alteration, extraction) that one might expect in a marine environment to maximize scientific accuracy (e.g., Muscente et al, 2019).…”

Advances in the understanding of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (IGCP-655 annual report)

“…There are significant advances on the incidence of the T-OAE on the macroinvertebrate communities (e.g., Baeza-Carratalá et al, 2017;Caswell and Frid, 2017;Martindale and Aberhan, 2017;Monarrez et al, 2017;Posenato et al, 2017). Brachiopods and bivalves have been the main studied groups.…”