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Acritarch Evidence for an Ediacaran Adaptive Radiation of Fungi

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Advent of Strong South Asian Monsoon by 20 Million Years Ago

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Affinities and architecture of Devonian trunks of Prototaxites loganii

scientific article

Affirming life aquatic for the Ediacara biota in China and Australia: COMMENT

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Archean coastal-plain paleosols and life on land

scientific article published in 2016

Arguments for a glossopterid ancestry of angiosperms

Scientific article published in January 1981

Arumberia and other Ediacaran–Cambrian fossils of central Australia

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Atmospheric CO2 from fossil plant cuticles

scientific article published in Nature

Book reviews

Scientific article published in January 1986

Boron paleosalinity proxy for deeply buried Paleozoic and Ediacaran fossils

scientific article published in 2020

Cambrian paleosols and landscapes of South Australia ∗

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Cambrian–Ordovician non-marine fossils from South Australia

scientific article (publication date: December 2009)

Carbon Cycling in Soil

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Carbon dioxide and climate over the past 300 Myr.

scientific article

Cenozoic Expansion of Grasslands and Climatic Cooling

scientific article

Cenozoic Paleoclimate on Land in North America

scientific article published in May 2007

Comment and Reply on ‘Reinterpretation of the depositional environment of the Yellowstone fossil forests’: COMMENT

scholarly article

Contrasting geochemical signatures on land from the Middle and Late Permian extinction events

Cool-Climate or Warm-Spike Lateritic Bauxites at High Latitudes?

scientific article published in November 2008

Core concepts of paleopedology

scholarly article

Cretaceous angiosperm invasion of North America

scholarly article

Deep time perspective on rising atmospheric CO2

scientific article published in June 2020

Depth to gypsic horizon as a proxy for paleoprecipitation in paleosols of sedimentary environments

scholarly article

Dinosaur and tree-line invasion of southeastern Australia during Cretaceous greenhouse spikes

scientific article published in 2023

Earliest Triassic Claystone Breccias and Soil-Erosion Crisis

scientific article published in July 2005

Early Triassic therapsid footprints from the Sydney Basin, Australia

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Ediacaran characters

scientific article published in November 2013

Ediacaran fossils in thin-section

scientific article published in 2016

Ediacaran life on land

scientific article

Eocene-Oligocene extinction and paleoclimatic change near Eugene, Oregon

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Equation for compaction of paleosols due to burial

scientific article

Evidence for Cnidaria-like behavior in ca. 560 Ma Ediacaran Aspidella: COMMENT

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Evidence from paleosols for ecosystem changes across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in eastern Montana

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Exceptional fossil preservation during CO2 greenhouse crises?

scientific article published in 2011

Exceptional preservation of soft-bodied Ediacara Biota promoted by silica-rich oceans: COMMENT

scientific article

Field and laboratory tests for recognition of Ediacaran paleosols

article published in 2016

Field recognition of paleosols

Scientific article published in 1988

First dinosaur (Ornithopoda) from Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Oregon, U.S.A

scholarly article by Gregory Retallack et al published 15 October 2018 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

First evidence for locomotion in the Ediacara biota from the 565 Ma Mistaken Point Formation, Newfoundland: COMMENT

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Fossil Soils as Grounds for Interpreting the Advent of Large Plants and Animals on Land [and Discussion]

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Geochemical Climofunctions from North American Soils and Application to Paleosols across the Eocene‐Oligocene Boundary in Oregon

scientific article

Global Cooling by Grassland Soils of the Geological Past and Near Future

Global coal gap between Permian–Triassic extinction and Middle Triassic recovery of peat-forming plants

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Greenhouse crises of the past 300 million years

scientific article published on 21 July 2009

Growth, decay and burial compaction ofDickinsonia, an iconic Ediacaran fossil

scientific article (publication date: September 2007)

How well do fossil assemblages of the Ediacara Biota tell time?: COMMENT

scientific article

Interflag sandstone laminae, a novel sedimentary structure, with implications for Ediacaran paleoenvironments

scholarly article

Late Devonian tetrapod habitats indicated by palaeosols in Pennsylvania

scientific article published in 2009

Late Miocene climate and life on land in Oregon within a context of Neogene global change

scholarly article by Gregory Retallack published in November 2004

Late Ordovician Glaciation Initiated by Early Land Plant Evolution and Punctuated by Greenhouse Mass Extinctions

scientific article published in 2015

Late Pleistocene mammoth trackway from Fossil Lake, Oregon

scholarly article

Lateritization and Bauxitization Events

Lepidopteris callipteroides, an earliest Triassic seed fern of the Sydney Basin, southeastern Australia

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Life, love and soil

scientific article published in Nature

Low oxygen levels in earliest Triassic soils

scholarly article

Low oxygen levels in earliest Triassic soils: Comment and Reply

scholarly article

Magnetic susceptibility of early Paleozoic and Precambrian paleosols

scientific article published in 2003

Mechanisms of PETM global change constrained by a new record from central Utah: COMMENT and REPLY

article by Gregory Retallack et al published January 2009 in Geology

Methane Release from Igneous Intrusion of Coal during Late Permian Extinction Events

scholarly article

Middle Miocene fossil plants from Fort Ternan (Kenya) and evolution of African grasslands

scientific article published in 1992

Middle Triassic megafossil plants from Long Gully, near Otematata, north Otago, New Zealand

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Middle triassic megafossil plants and trace fossils from Tank Gully, Canterbury, New Zealand

scientific article published in March 1980

Middle-Late Permian mass extinction on land

scientific article published in November 2006

Multiple Early Triassic greenhouse crises impeded recovery from Late Permian mass extinction

scientific article published in 2011

Multiple Permian-Triassic life crises on land and at sea

scientific article

Neogene Expansion of the North American Prairie

scientific article published in 1997

Outcrop versus core and geophysical log interpretation of mid-Cretaceous paleosols from the Dakota Formation of Kansas

scientific article published in 2012

Palaeoenvironments of the Eifelian dolomites with earliest tetrapod trackways (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland)

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Palaeosols in the upper Narrabeen group of New South Wales as evidence of Early Triassic palaeoenvironments without exact modern analogues*

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Paleoenvironmental interpretation of paleosols

scientific article

Paleoproterozoic (ca. 1.9 Ga) megascopic life on land in Western Australia

scholarly article

Paleosol-based inference of niches for Oligocene and early miocene fossils from the John Day Formation of Oregon

scientific article published in 2020

Paleosols and paleoenvironments of early Mars

scholarly article by Gregory Retallack published September 2014 in Geology

Paleosols and paleoenvironments of the middle Miocene, Maboko Formation, Kenya

scientific article published in June 2002

Pedogenic carbonate proxies for amount and seasonality of precipitation in paleosols

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Permian and Triassic greenhouse crises

scientific article published in 2013

Problematic Mesoproterozoic fossil Horodyskia from Glacier National Park, Montana, USA

scientific article

Problematic urn-shaped fossils from a Paleoproterozoic (2.2Ga) paleosol in South Africa

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Rapid emergence of subaerial landmasses and onset of a modern hydrologic cycle 2.5 billion years ago

scientific article published in Nature

Reappraisal of a 2200 Ma-old paleosol near Waterval Onder, South Africa

scientific article published in July 1986

Reassessment of the Devonian problematicum Protonympha as another post-Ediacaran vendobiont

scientific article published in 2017

Reassessment of the Silurian problematicumRutgersellaas another post-Ediacaran vendobiont

scientific article published in 2015

Reconstructing Triassic vegetation of eastern Australasia: a new approach for the biostratigraphy of Gondwanaland

Scientific article published in January 1977

Reconstructions of Selected Seed Ferns

scientific article published in 1988

Regional Paleoprecipitation Records from the Late Eocene and Oligocene of North America

scholarly article

Revised Wonoka isotopic anomaly in South Australia and Late Ediacaran mass extinction

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Rocks, views, soils and plants at the temples of ancient Greece

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Scoyenia burrows from Ordovician palaeosols of the Juniata Formation in Pennsylvania

scientific article published in March 2001

Sea-level fluctuations in the late Middle Permian estimated from palaeosols of the Sichuan Basin, SW China

scholarly article

Search for evidence of impact at the Permian-Triassic boundary in Antarctica and Australia

scientific article published in 1998

Search for evidence of impact at the Permian-Triassic boundary in Antarctica and Australia: Comment and Reply

scientific article published in 1999

Soil Carbon Dioxide Planetary Thermostat

scientific article published in January 2022

Soils and landscape evolution, proceedings of the 21st Binghampton symposium in geomorphology held 6–7 October 1990

scholarly article

Soils and terrestrial sediments on the seafloor: Refining archaeological paleoshoreline estimates and paleoenvironmental reconstruction off the California coast

scientific article published in 2022

Stepwise Climate Change Recorded in Eocene‐Oligocene Paleosol Sequences From Central Oregon

scientific article published in March 1997

Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Precambrian

scholarly article by Hugo Beraldi-Campesi published in January 2016

The Promise and Problems of Precambrian Paleosols

scholarly article

The life and times of a Triassic lycopod

Scientific article published in January 1975

The terrestrial Permian–Triassic boundary event bed is a nonevent: COMMENT

scholarly article

Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO <sub>2</sub>

scientific article published on 8 December 2023

Trace fossil evidence for late ordovician animals on land

scientific article

Triassic Vegetation and Geography of the New Zealand Portion of the Gondwana Supercontinent

scientific article published on 18 March 2013

Triassic fossil plant fragments from shallow marine rocks of the Murihiku Supergroup, New Zealand

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Triassic palaeosols in the upper narrabeen group of New South Wales

Scientific article published in March 1977

Triassic-Jurassic atmospheric CO2 spike

scientific article published in January 2002

Vertebrate extinction across Permian–Triassic boundary in Karoo Basin, South Africa

scientific article published in 2003

Volcanosedimentary paleoenvironments of Ediacaran fossils in Newfoundland

scholarly article

Were the Ediacaran fossils lichens?

Why was there a Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth?

scientific article published in 2023

Woodland Hypothesis for Devonian Tetrapod Evolution

scholarly article

δ13C depth profiles from paleosols across the Permian-Triassic boundary: Evidence for methane release

scientific article published in September 2000