Pierre Broly

TL;DR: The ammonite is a juvenile Puzosia (Bhimaites) and provides supporting evidence for a Late Albian–Early Cenomanian age of the amber and insights into the taphonomy of amber and the paleoecology of Cretaceous amber forests are provided.

TL;DR: The results reveal that the response to the heterogeneities affects only the location of the aggregates and not the level of aggregation, and demonstrate the strong inter-attraction between conspecifics which can outweigh individual preferences.

TL;DR: A pre-Pangaean origin of the Oniscidea is discussed and supported, in the Late Paleozoic—most likely during the Carboniferous, to replace this group in a deep-time context.

TL;DR: This review addresses not only the limitation of water loss as the main factor explaining aggregation patterns, but also alternative explanations as reduction of oxygen consumption, increase in body growth, biotic stimuli for reproduction, better access to mates, possible shared defenses against predators, and promotion of coprophagy.

TL;DR: It is shown that the social component is also important in the isopod aggregation phenomenon and the location of aggregates is strongly governed by individual preferences but the dynamics of aggregation and collective choice are controlled by social interaction between congeners.