Fara Emmanuel

Emmanuel FARA

Full-time Professor in Palaeontology

Laboratoire Biogéosciences (UMR CNRS / uB /EPHE 6282)

UFR Sciences de la Vie, de la Terre et de l’Environnement (SVTE)

Université de Bourgogne

6 boulevard Gabriel

21000 Dijon

FRANCE

Tél : +33 380-39-39-70

Email : emmanuel.fara@u-bourgogne.fr

RESEARCH

What are the processes structuring biodiversity at the local, regional, and global scale? How do biological communities respond to environmental changes and what are the associated kinetics?

My research activities revolve around these questions and they concern two major axes:

• The first one focuses on the evolution and structure of local and regional communities in relation to palaeoenvironment. Both the temporal and spatial components of the patterns are investigated using modern and fossil assemblages of invertebrates and vertebrates.
• The second axis is a long term project with an ambitious aim: to define macroevolutionary patterns and processes for Phanerozoïc diversifications. It consists in investigating models of diversification and recovery dynamics.

The general objective is to identify the mechanisms driving biodiversity and extinction through time and to define the spatio-temporal scales at which these processes occur. As such, my research is well-anchored into macroevolution and macroecology, two disciplines for which the fossil record is an ideal working area.

Publications

Articles in Peer-reviewed journals

Fara E. (2000) – Diversity of Callovian-Ypresian (Middle Jurassic-Eocene) tetrapod families and selectivity of extinctions at the K/T boundary – Geobios, 33(3): 387-396.

Fara E. & Benton M.J. (2000) – The fossil record of Cretaceous tetrapods – Palaios, 15 (2): 161-165.

Fara E. & Hungerbühler A. (2000) – « Paleorhinus magnoculus » from the Upper Triassic of Morocco: a juvenile primitive phytosaur (Archosauria) – Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris IIa, 331 (12): 831-836.

Fara E. (2001) – What are Lazarus taxa? – Geological Journal, 36: 291-303.       

Fara E., Ouja M., Buffetaut E. & Srarfi D. (2002) – First occurrences of thalattosuchian crocodiles in the Middle and Upper Jurassic of Tunisia – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 2002 (8): 465-476.

Fara E. (2002) – Sea-level variations and the quality of the continental fossil record – Journal of the Geological Society of London, 159: 489-491.

Fara E. & Langer M.C. (2004) – Estimates of phylogeny and biochronology – Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 7(3) : 301-309.

Srarfi, D., Ouaja, M., Buffetaut, E., Cuny, G., Barale, G., Ferry, S., Fara, E. (2004) – Position stratigraphique des niveaux à vertébrés du Mésozoïque du Sud-Est de la Tunisie – Notes du Service Géologique de Tunisie 72: 5-16.

Fara E. (2004) – Estimating minimum global species diversity for groups with a poor fossil record: a case study of Late Jurassic-Eocene lissamphibians – Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 207 (1-2): 59-82.

Fara E., Saraiva A., Campos D.A., Moreira J.K.R., Siebra D.C. & Kellner A.W.A. (2005) – Controlled excavations in the Romualdo Member of the Santana Formation (Araripe Basin, Lower Cretaceous, northeastern Brazil): stratigraphic, palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological implications –  Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 218 (1-2): 145-160.

Fara E., Likius A., Mackaye H.T., Vignaud P. & Brunet M. (2005) – Pliocene large-mammal assemblages from northern Chad: sampling and ecological structure – Naturwissenschaften 92: 537-541.

Pinton A., Fara E. & Otero, O. (2006) – Spine anatomy reveals the diversity of catfish through time: a case study of Synodontis (Siluriformes) – Naturwissenschaften 93: 22-26.

Saraiva A.Á.F., Hessel M.H., Guerra N.C. & Fara E. (2007) – Concreções calcárias da Formação Santana, Bacia do Araripe: uma proposta de classificação – Estudos Geológicos 17 (1): 40-57.

Fara E., Gayet M. & Taverne L. (2007) – Les Gonorynchiformes fossiles: distribution et diversité – Cybium 31(2): 115-122.

Viriot L., Vignaud P., Boisserie J.-R., Fara E., Guy F., Lihoreau F., Lehman T., Schuster M., Blondel C., Duringer P., Likius A., Mackaye H.T., Otero O. & Brunet M. (2008) – Late Miocene to Early Pliocene Chadian vertebrate faunas: palaeoenvironmental and palaeobiogeographical implications – The Geology of East Libya 3: 303-308.

Le Fur S., Fara E., Mackaye H.T., Vignaud P. & Brunet M. (2009) – The mammal assemblage of the hominid site TM266 (Late Miocene, Chad Basin): ecological structure and paleoenvironmental implications – Naturwissenschaften 96: 565-574.

Dommergues J-L., Fara E. & Meister C. (2009) – Ammonite diversity and its palaeobiogeographical structure during the early Pliensbachian (Jurassic) in the western Tethys and adjacent areas – Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 280: 64-77.

Tabuce R., Marivaux L., Lebrun R., Adaci M., Bensalah M., Fabre P.-H., Fara E., Gomes Rodrigues H., Hautier L., Jaeger J.-J., Lazzari V., Mebrouk F., Peigné S., Sudre J., Tafforeau P., Valentin X. & Mahboubi M. (2009) – Anthropoid versus strepsirhine status of the African Eocene primates Algeripithecus and Azibius: craniodental evidence – Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 276: 4087-4094.

Dera G., Neige P., Dommergues J.-L., Fara E., Laffont R. & Pellenard P. (2010) – High-resolution dynamics of Early Jurassic marine extinctions: the case of Pliensbachian-Toarcian ammonites (Cephalopoda) – Journal of the Geological Society of London 167: 21-33.

Escarguel G., Fara E., Brayard A. & Legendre S. (2011) – Biodiversity is not (and never has been) a bed of roses! – Comptes Rendus Biologies 334: 351-359.

Le Fur S., Fara E. & Vignaud P. (2011) – Effect of simulated faunal impoverishment and mixture on the ecological structure of modern mammal faunas: implications for the reconstruction of Mio-Pliocene African palaeoenvironments – Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 305: 295-309.

Moreau J.-D., Gand G., Fara E. & Michelin A. (2012) – Biometric and morphometric approaches on lower Hettangian dinosaur footprints from the Rodez Strait (Aveyron, France) – Comptes Rendus Palévol 11 (4): 231-239.

Hardy C., Fara E., Laffont R., Dommergues J.-L., Meister C. & Neige P. (2012) – Deep-time phylogenetic clustering of extinctions in an evolutionarily dynamic clade (Early Jurassic ammonites) – PLoS ONE 7(5): e37977. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037977.

Brosse M., Brayard A., Fara E. & Neige P. (2013) – Ammonoid recovery after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction: a reexploration of morphological and phylogenetic diversity patterns – Journal of the Geological Society of London 170: 225-236.

Brayard A., Bylund K.G., Jenks J.F., Stephen D.A., Olivier N., Escarguel G., Fara E. & Vennin E. (2013) – Smithian ammonoid faunas from Utah: implications for Early Triassic biostratigraphy, correlation and basinal paleogeography – Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 132: 141-219.

Olivier N., Brayard A., Fara E., Bylund K.G., Jenks J.F., Vennin E., Stephen D.A., Escarguel G. (2014) – Smithian shoreline migrations and depositional settings in Timpoweap Canyon (Early Triassic, Utah, USA) – Geological Magazine 151 (5 ): 938 – 955.

Le Fur S., Fara E., Mackaye H.T., Vignaud P. & Brunet M. (2014) – Toros-Menalla, the earliest hominin-bearing area (Chad, 7 Ma): how many mammal palaeocommunities? –  Journal of Human Evolution 69: 79-90.

Moreau J.D., Fara, E. Gand G., Lafaurie G. & Baret L. (2014) – Gigantism among Late Jurassic limulids: new ichnological evidence from the Causses Basin (Lozère, France) – Geobios 47(4): 237-253.

Jattiot R., Brayard A., Fara E. & Charbonnier S. (2015) Gladius-bearing coleoids from the Upper Cretaceous Lebanese Lagerstätten: diversity, morphology, and phylogenetic implications – Journal of Paleontology 89(1): 1–20.

Vennin E., Olivier N., Brayard A., Bour I, Thomazo C., Escarguel G., Fara E., Bylund K.G., Jenks J., Stephen D.A. & Hofmann R. (2015) –  Microbial deposits in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction: a diverging case from Mineral Mountains (Utah, USA) – Sedimentology 62: 753-792.

Brayard A., Meier M., Escarguel G., Fara E., Nützel A., Olivier N., Bylund K.G., Jenks J., Stephen D.A., Hautmann M., Vennin E. & Bucher H. (2015): Early Triassic Gulliver gastropods: spatio-temporal distribution and significance for the biotic recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction – Earth Science Reviews 146: 31-64.

Olivier N., Brayard A., Vennin E., Escarguel G., Fara E., Bylund K.G., Jenks J., Caravaca G. & Stephen D.A. (2015) – Evolution of depositional settings in the Torrey area during the Smithian (Early Triassic, Utah, USA) and their significance for the biotic recovery – Geological Journal 51: 600–626.

Thomazo C., Bour I., Vennin E., Brayard A., Mathieu O., Olivier N., Escarguel G., Bylund K.G., Jenks J., Stephen D.A. & Fara E. (2016) – A diagenetic control on the Early Triassic Smithian-Spathian carbon isotopic excursions recorded in the marine settings of the Thaynes Group (Utah, USA) – Geobiology 14(3):220-36.

Fara E. & Dommergues J.-L. (2016) – Présence du genre Bythinella Moquin-Tandon, 1856 (Gastropoda, Bythinellidae) et d’autres hydrobioïdes en Saône-et-Loire : intérêt taxinomique et enjeux de conservation – MalaCo 12: 8-11.

Zacaï A., Brayard A., Dommergues J.-L., Meister C., Escarguel G., Laffont R., Vrielynck B. & Fara E. (2016) – Gauging scale effects and biogeographic signals in similarity distance decay analyses: the case study of Early Jurassic ammonites – Palaeontology 59(5): 671-687.

Jattiot R., Fara E., Brayard A. & Vennin E. (2016) – Revised stratigraphic range of the Toarcian ammonite genus Porpoceras Buckman, 1911 – Geodiversitas 38 (4): 557-565.

Fara E. (2016) – Tracking Spanish dinosaurs – Geobios 49: 499-500.

Brayard A., Krumenacker L.J., Botting J.P., Jenks J.F., Bylund K.G., Fara E., Vennin E.,Olivier N., Goudemand N., Saucède T., Charbonnier S., Romano C., Doguzhaeva L., Thuy B.,  Hautmann M., Stephen D.A., Thomazo C., Escarguel G. (2017) – Unexpected Early Triassic marine ecosystem and the rise of the Modern evolutionary fauna – Science Advances 3, e1602159

Caravaca G., Thomazo C., Vennin E., Olivier N., Coquerez T., Escarguel G., Fara E., Jenks J.F., Bylund K., Stephen D.A., Brayard A. (2017) – Early Triassic fluctuations of the global carbon cycle: new evidence from paired carbon isotopes in the western USA basin – Global and Planetary Change 154: 10-22

Villier L., Brayard A., Bylund K.G., Jenks J.F., Escarguel G., Olivier N., Fara E., Vennin E. & Stephen D.A. (2017) – Superstesaster n. gen. promissor n. sp. a new starfish (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) from the late middle Smithian (Early Triassic) of Utah (U.S.A.), filling a gap in our understanding of the crown group history – Journal of Systematic Palaeontology DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1308972

Zacaï A., Fara E., Brayard A., Laffont R., Dommergues J.-L., Meister C. (2017) – Heritability of species range sizes is the combined outcome of phylogeny and environmental stability – Journal of Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13043

Caravaca G., Brayard A., Vennin E., Guiraud M., Le Pourhiet L., Grosjean A.-S., Thomazo C., Olivier N., Fara E., Escarguel G., Bylund K.G., Jenks J.F. & Stephen D.A. (2017) – Controlling factors for differential subsidence in the Sonoma Foreland Basin (Early Triassic, western USA) – Geological Magazine 155 (6): 1305-1329.

Grosjean S., Vennin E., Olivier N., Caravaca G., Thomazo C., Fara E., Escarguel G., Bylund K.G., Jenks J.F., Stephen D.A. & Brayard A. (2018) – Early Triassic environmental dynamics and microbial development during the Smithian−Spathian transition (Lower Weber Canyon, Utah, USA) – Sedimentary Geology 363: 136-151.

Doguzhaeva L.A., Brayard, A., Goudemand N., Krumenacker L.J., Jenks J.F., Bylund K.G., Fara E., Olivier N., Vennin E., & Escarguel G. (2018) – An Early Triassic gladius associated with soft tissue remains from Idaho, USA — a squid-like coleoid cephalopod at the onset of Mesozoic Era – Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63 (2): 341–355.

Olivier N., Fara E., Brayard A., Vennin E., Bylund K.G., Jenks J.F., Stephen D.A., Goudemand N., Snyder D. & Escarguel G. (2018) – An example of late Smithian microbial deposits and their lateral marine fossiliferous limestones (Early Triassic, Hurricane Cliffs, Utah, USA) – Facies 64 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-018-0526-3)

Gand G., Fara E., Durlet C., Moreau J.-D., Caravaca G., Baret L., André D., Lefillatre R., Passet Alain, Wiénin M. & Gély J.-P. (2018) – Les pistes d’archosauriens : Kayentapus ubacensis nov. isp. (théropodes) et crocodylomorphes du Bathonien des Grands-Causses (France). Conséquences paléo-biologiques, environnementales et géographiques – Annales de Paléontologie https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annpal.2018.06.002

Thomazo C., Brayard A., Elmeknassi S., Vennin E., Olivier N., Caravaca G., Escarguel G., Fara E., Bylund K.G., Jenks J.F., Stephen D.A., Killingsworth B., Sansjofre P. & Cartigny P. 2019. Multiple sulfur isotope signals associated with the late Smithian event and the Smithian/Spathian boundary. Earth-Science Reviews 195: 96-113.

Zacaï A., Brayard A., Laffont R., Dommergues J.-L., Meister C. & Fara E. (2018) – Rapoport effect and the climatic variability hypothesis in Early Jurassic ammonites – Palaeontology https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12389

Brayard A., Fara E. & Escarguel G. 2019. Foreword for the thematic issue « The Paris Biota (Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA): an exceptional window on the Early Triassic marine life » – Geobios, 54 : 1-3.

Brayard A., Guériau P., Thoury M., Escarguel G., Bylund K.G., Fara E., Goudemand N., Jenks J.F., Krumenacker L.J., Olivier N., Stephen D.A., Thomazo C. & Vennin E. 2019. Glow in the dark: use of synchrotron µXRF trace elemental mapping and multispectral macro-imaging on fossils from the Paris Biota (Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA) – Geobios, 54 : 71-79.

Brayard A., Jenks J.F., Bylund K.G., Escarguel G., Fara E., Goudemand N., Guériau P., Krumenacker L.J., Olivier N., Stephen D.A., Thomazo C., Thoury M. & Vennin E. 2019. Ammonoids and nautiloids from the earliest Spathian Paris Biota and other early Spathian localities in southeastern Idaho, USA – Geobios, 54 : 13-36.

Botting J.P., Brayard A., Bylund K.G., Escarguel G., Fara E., Goudemand N., Guériau P., Jenks J.F., Krumenacker L.J., Olivier N., Stephen D.A., Thomazo C., Thoury M. & Vennin E. 2019. A late-surviving Triassic protomonaxonid sponge from the Paris Biota (Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA) – Geobios, 54 : 5-11.

Saucède T., Vennin E., Fara E., Olivier N., Brayard A., Bylund K.G., Escarguel G., Goudemand N., Guériau P., Jenks J.F., Krumenacker L.J., Stephen D.A., Thomazo C. & Thoury M. 2019. A new holocrinid (Articulata) from the Paris Biota (Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA) highlights the high diversity of Early Triassic crinoids – Geobios 54 : 45-53.

Romano C., Argyriou T., Krumenacker L.J., Brayard A., Bylund K.G., Escarguel G., Fara E., Goudemand N., Guériau P., Jenks J.F., Olivier N., Stephen D.A., Thomazo C., Thoury M. & Vennin E. 2019. Chondrichthyan teeth from the Early Triassic Paris Biota (Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA) – Geobios 54 : 63-70.

Thuy B., Escarguel G., Brayard A., Bylund K.G., Fara E., Goudemand N., Guériau P., Jenks J.F., Krumenacker L.J., Olivier N., Stephen D.A., Thomazo C., Thoury M. & Vennin E. 2019. A new brittle star (Ophiuroidea: Ophiodermatina) from the Early Triassic Paris Biota (Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA) – Geobios, 54 : 55-61.

Charbonnier S., Brayard A., Bylund K.G., Escarguel G., Fara E., Goudemand N., Guériau P., Jenks J.F., Krumenacker L.J., Olivier N., Stephen D.A., Thomazo C., Thoury M. & Vennin E. 2019. New thylacocephalans from the Early Triassic Paris Biota (Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA) – Geobios, 54 : 37-43.

Iniesto M., Thomazo C., Fara E., Brayard A., Bylund K.G., Escarguel G., Goudemand N., Guériau P., Jenks J.F., Krumenacker L.J., Olivier N., Stephen D.A., Thoury M. & Vennin E. 2019. Deciphering the exceptional preservation of the Early Triassic Paris Biota (Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA) – Geobios 54: 81-93.

Moreau J.-D., Fara E., Néraudeau D. & Gand G. 2019. New Hettangian tracks from the Causses Basin (Lozère, southern France) complement the poor fossil record of earliest Jurassic crocodylomorphs in Europe – Historical Biology 31(3): 341-352.

Jattiot R., Fara E., Brayard A., Urdy S. & Goudemand N. 2019. Learning from beautiful monsters: phylogenetic and morphogenetic implications of left-right asymmetry in ammonoid shells – BMC Evolutionary Biology 19(1): 210.

Moreau J.-D., Trincal V., Fara E., Baret L., Jacquet A., Barbini C., Flament R., Wienin M., Bourel B. & Jean A. 2020. Middle Jurassic tracks of sauropod dinosaurs in a deep karst cave from France – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology DOI:10.1080/02724634.2020.1728286.

Brayard A., Olivier N., Vennin E., Jenks J.F., Bylund K.J., Stephen D.A., Snyder D., Goudemand N., Fara E., Escarguel G. (2020) – New middle and late Smithian ammonoid faunas from the Utah/Arizona border: new evidence for calibrating Early Triassic transgressive-regressive trends and paleobiogeographical signals in the western USA basin – Global and Planetary Change 192: 103251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103251

Lkebir N., Rolland T., Monna F., Masrour M., Bouchaou L., Fara E., Navarro, N. Wilczek J., Beraaouz E.H, Chateau-Smith C. & Perez-Lorenté F. (2020) – Anza palaeoichnological site, Late Cretaceous, Morocco. Part III: comparison between traditional and photogrammetric records – Journal of African Earth Sciences 172: 103985 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.103985

Szewczyk L., Vennin E., Moreau J.-D., Gand G., Verolet M., Klee N. & Fara E. (2020) –  Tracking dinosaurs in coarse-grained sediments from the Upper Triassic of Ardèche (southeastern France) – Palaios 35(11): 447-460 https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2020.025

Neige P., Weis R. & Fara, E. (2021) – Ups and downs of belemnite diversity in the Early Jurassic of Western Tethys – Palaeontology https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12522

Moreau J.D., Sciau J., Gand G. & Fara, E. (2021) – Uncommon preservation of dinosaur footprints in a tidal breccia: Eubrontes giganteus from the Early Jurassic of Mongisty (Aveyron, Southern France) – Geological Magazine 158: 1403–1420 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756820001454

Fara E., Moreau J.-D.,  Szewczyk L., Klee N., Gand G. & Vennin E. (2021) – Inventory and Conservation of Triassic Vertebrate Tracks in the Monts d’Ardèche UNESCO Global Geopark, France – GeoConservation Research 4(2): 317-329. Doi: 10.30486/gcr.2021.1912278.1045

Brayard A., Jenks J.F., Bylund K.J., Olivier N., Vennin E., Stephen D.A., Escarguel G. & Fara E. (2021) – Latest Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid assemblages in Utah (western USA basin) and their implications for regional biostratigraphy, biogeography and placement of the Smithian/Spathian boundary – Geobios 69: 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2021.05.003

Smith C.P.A., Laville T., Fara E., Escarguel G., Olivier N., Vennin E., Goudemand N., Bylund K.G., Jenks J.F., Stephen D.A., Hautmann M., Charbonnier S., Krumenacker L.J. & Brayard A. (2021) – Exceptional fossil assemblages confirm the existence of complex Early Triassic ecosystems during the early Spathian – Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99056-80b7f1493-5142-4942-b768-c0f9eb2814aa

De Baets K., Nätscher P.S., Rita P., Fara E., Neige P., Bardin J., Dera G., Duarte L.V., Hughes Z., Laschinger P., García-Ramos J.C., Piñuela L., Übelacker C. & Weis R. (2022) – The Impact of the Pliensbachian-Toarcian crisis on belemnite assemblages and size distribution – Swiss Journal of Palaeontology https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-021-00242-y

Moreau J.-D., Vullo R., Charbonnier S., Jattiot R., Trincal V., Néraudeau D., Fara E., Baret L., Garassino A., Gand G., Lafaurie G. (2022) – Konservat-Lagerstätten from the Late Jurassic lithographic limestone of the Causse Méjean (Lozère, southern France): palaeontological and palaeoenvironmental synthesis – Geological Magazine https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756821001382

Jattiot R., Lehmann J., Latutrie B., Tajika A., Vennin E., Vuarin P., Brayard A., Fara E. & Trincal V. (accepté) – Uppermost Albian (Mortoniceras rostratum Zone) cephalopods from Clansayes (Drôme, southeastern France) – Acta Geologica Polonica DOI:10.24425/agp.2021.139308

Smith C.P.A., Charbonnier S., Jenks J.F., Bylund K.G., Escarguel G., Olivier N., Fara E. & Brayard A. (2022) – The Paris Biota Decapoda (Arthropoda) fauna and a review of Triassic decapods – Journal of Paleontology 96 (6): 1235-1263. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2022.34

Moreau J.-D., Michelin A., Fara E., Gand G., Galtier J., Puech G. & Fouché S. (2022) – Ichnofossils and body fossils from the Permian of the Sorgue Valley (Saint-Affrique Basin, southern France): palaeoenvironmental implications. Historical Biology DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2022.2148205

Saucède T., Smith C.A.S., Olivier N., Durlet C., Gueriau P., Thoury M., Fara E. & Brayard A. (2023) – A new Early Triassic crinoid from Nevada questions the origin and palaeobiogeographic history of dadocrinids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01042.2022

Smith C.P.A., Aubier P., Haug, C., Charbonnier S., Jenks J.F., Bylund K.G., Escarguel G., Olivier N., Fara E. & Brayard A. (accepté) – Closing a major gap in mantis shrimp evolution – first fossils of Stomatopoda from the Triassic. Bulletin of Geosciences

Books Chapters

Fara E., Gayet M. & Taverne L. (2009) – Chapter 10: The Fossil Record of Gonorynchiforms. In: Poyato-Ariza, F.J., Grande, T., & Diogo, R. (Eds.) – Teleostean Fish Biology; A Comprehensive Examination of Major Taxa.  Vol. 1: A comprehensive review of Gonorhynchiformes and of Ostariophysan Relationships. Science Publishers Inc., Enfield, New Hampshire, USA, pp. 173-226.

Fara E., Saucède T., Neige P. & Dommergues J.-L. (2021) – La biodiversité au Sinémurien. In: Neige P. & Dommergues J.-L. (coordinators) : Stratotype Sinémurien. Série Patrimoine Géologique, Biotope Edition, pp.96-98.

Fara E. & Vincent P. (2021) – Vertébrés. In: Neige P. & Dommergues J.-L. (coordinators) : Stratotype Sinémurien. Série Patrimoine Géologique, Biotope Edition, pp. 231-234.

Peer-reviewed Abstracts

• Fara E. & Langer M.C. (2000) – Using cladograms for biostratigraphic inferences – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 20 (3): 40A.

• Alroy J., Behrensmeyer K., Carrano M., Clyde W., Fara E., Fortelius M., Head J., Hunter J., Uhen M. & Wang X. (2003) – The 5% Project: just how good is the fossil record of tetrapods? – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23 (3): 29A.

• Zaher H.D., Langer M.C., Fara E., Carvalho I.S., Arruda J.T. (2003) – A mais antiga serpente (anilioidea) brasileira: Cretaceo Superior do Grupo Bauru, General Salgado, SP. Paleontologia em Destaque 44: 51-52.

• Fara E. (2004) – Assessing global species diversity when the fossil record is poor: a case study of Late Jurassic-Eocene lissamphibians – Geophysical Research Abstracts, 6, 01400, EGU 2004.

• Srarfi D., Ouaja M., Buffetaut E., Cuny G., Barale G., Ferry S., Fara E. (2004) – Position stratigraphique des niveaux à vertébrés du Mésozoïque du Sud-Est de la Tunisie. Notes du Service Géologique de Tunisie 72, 5-16

• Alroy J., Carrano M., Clyde W., Fara E., Head J., Hunter J., Uhen M. & Whateley R. (2005) – Ecological spectra through the Cretaceous and Cenozoic tetrapod fossil record – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25 (3): 31A.

• Fara E. & Saraiva A.Á.F. (2009) – Stratigraphy and vertebrate diversity of the Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Brazil): two centuries of misappreciation – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29 (3): 94A.

• Fara E., Pierrat B., Merle D., Vennin E. & Neige P. (2011) – Back to a famous palaeontological site: facies and biodiversity of the rich mollusc assemblages from Grignon (middle Eocene, France) – In: Nebelsick J.H., Friedrich J.-P. & Dynowski J.F. (eds.), 6th International Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization. Taphos 2011. Tübingen, 14th-17th June 2011. Annali dell’Università di Ferrara, Sez. Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica, volume speciale, pp. 37-38.

• Stephen D.A., Brayard A., Olivier N., Vennin E., Bylund K., Jenks J., Escarguel G., Fara E., Snyder D. & Stanley G.D. Jr (2013) – Early Triassic metazoan reefs from the Western USA – Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7.

• Jattiot R., Fara E., Brayard A. & Charbonnier S. (2013) – Fossil coleoids from the Lagerstätte of Sâhel Aalma (Upper Cretaceous, Lebanon) – Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 45(7):308.

• Fara, E., Dommergues, J.-L., Béguinot, J. & Gargominy, O. (2016) – Premiers résultats de l’analyse biogéographique des communautés de gastéropodes continentaux en Bourgogne Franche-Comté ; In : Cucherat, X. & Léonard, L. (éds.) 2016. Recueil des résumés du colloque national de malacologie continentale du 30 et 31 mars 2016 à Barenton-Bugny (Aisne). MalaCo, Hors Série 2, pp. 11.

• Caravaca, Brayard A., Vennin E., Guiraud M., Grosjean AS, Olivier N., Thomazo C., Fara E., Escarguel G. (2016)- Lithospheric strength: a potential controlling factor over differential subsidence in the Early Triassic Sonoma foreland basin (western USA)? GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA (25-28 septembre2016). GSA Abstract with programs, 48 (7): 281340

• Fara E., Moreau J.-D., Szewczyk L., Gand G., Vennin E., Klee N., Verolet M., Jiquel S., Dubied M., Monna F. (2019) – Revisiting and exploring Middle-Late Triassic vertebrate tracksites in Ardèche (southern France) – 3rd International Conference of Continental Ichnology, Abstract Volume & Field Guide, Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften, 46: 28.

• Moreau J.-D., Trincal V., Fara E., Baret L., Jacquet A., Barbini C., Flament R., Wienin M., Bourel B., Jean A. (2021) – Middle Jurassic sauropod tracks in the Castelbouc cave N°4 (Lozère, France). Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Speleology (UIS), Bourget du Lac (sous presse)

publications for scientific outreach

• Fara E., Moreau J.-D., Szewczyk L., Gand G., Mendras L., Fayolle R., Klee N., Jiquel S., Laffont R., Poloni L., Verolet M., Vennin E. (2022). Étude des traces de pas de vertébrés du Permien et du Trias d’Ardèche: Enjeux et perspectives. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de l’Ardèche 15: 43-50.

• Moreau J.-D., Fara E., Gand G., Durlet C., Caravaca G., Trincal V. & Flament R. 2021.  Traces de pas de dinosaures du Jurassique moyen : bilan sur deux décennies de découvertes en Lozère. Bulletin du Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches de Mende 40, 13-20.

• Fara E. (2021) – La sixième extinction à l’aune de la paléontologie. Questions de Nature, article paru dans le Journal du Centre, le Journal de Saône-et-Loire et le Bien public le 21 novembre 2021.

• Moreau J.-D., Trincal V., Baret L., Jacquet A., André D., Wienin M., Barbini C., Fara E., Flament R., Bourel B., Blanchard S. (2020) – Des empreintes de dinosaures dans les karsts des Grands Causses : grottes de Malaval et Castelbouc IV – Spelunca 160: 38-46.
  

• Fara E. (2020) – Un regard paléontologique sur la « 6^ème extinction de masse » – Revue Scientifique BFC-Nature 31-2020: 163-169.

• Fara E. (2019) – Mesurer et comprendre la biodiversité du passé – Bourgogne Nature Junior, 10-2019: 75-77.

• Moreau J.-D., Fara E., Néraudeau D., Gand G. (2018) – Des traces de pas de crocodylomorphes dans le Jurassique inférieur de Lozère (-200 millions d’années) – Bulletin du Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches de Mende 37: 59–68.

• Brayard A., Escarguel G., Fara E. (2017) – Un gisement exceptionnel de l’Idaho dévoile comment la biodiversité peut traverser les grandes crises d’extinction – Article web du site de l’ENS « Planet-Vie », publié le mardi 2 mai 2017 http://planet-vie.ens.fr/article/2391/gisement-exceptionnel-idaho-devoile-comment-biodiversite-peut-traverser-grandes-crises

• Ryelandt J., Fara E., Béguinot J. & Dommergues J.L. (2017) – Les mollusques de Bourgogne Franche-Comté : vers un nouvel inventaire – Revue Scientifique Bourgogne-Nature, 25-2017: 279-285.

• Fara, E. & Gand, G. (2015). Traces d’histoire et histoires de traces. Journal du Parc Naturel Régional des Monts d’Ardèche, numéro 18:  8.

• Moreau J.-D., Baret L., Gand G., Fara E., Durlet C. & Caravaca G. (2012) – Découverte d’un nouveau site à traces de pas de Dinosaures dans le Bathonien des Causses (Le Gayrand, Gorges de la Jonte, Lozère, France). Association Paléontologique des Hauts Plateaux du Languedoc (A.P.H.P.L.), 2012, 13-19.

• Fara E. (2010) Stratigrafia e diversidade dos vertebrados da Formaçao Santana. Geopark Magazine, URCA, Brésil.

• Fara E. (2006) – A Chapada do Araripe: riqueza e perspectiva paleontológica – Publicaçao Especial da Fundaçao Araripe, Crato, Brésil.

Excursion guides

• Neige P., Cecca F., De Baets K., Dommergues J.L., Fara E., Guiomar M., Kruta I., Rouget I., Rulleau L. & Vermeulen J. 2010. Four days in Jurassic and Cretaceous outcrops in Lyon and Digne-les-Bains areas. Fieldtrip Guidebook for the 8th International Symposium, Cephalopods – Present and Past, 48p.

• Neige P., Dommergues J.L. & Fara E. 2010. A day in Burgundy. Fieldtrip Guidebook for the 8th International Symposium, Cephalopods – Present and Past, 20p.

• Regnet J.B, Bailly C., Fara E., Bonijoly D. & Bourquin S. 2021. Ardèche Field Trip, September 10-13, 2021, Association of Permian and Triassic Geologists, 23p.

reports

• Fara, E. (2016) – Etudes des traces du Permien et du Trias de la bordure ardéchoise. Rapport d’étape n°1, Géopark du PNR des Monts d’Ardèche, 11p.

• Corenblit et al. (dont Fara, E. contributeur). 2017. Biosphère-Géosphère : approches intégrées. Prospectives de l’Institut Ecologie & Environnement (INEE), Compte-rendu des journées 22-24 février 2017, Bordeaux, Les Cahiers Perspectives, pp. 15-23.

• Crochet et al. (dont Fara, E. contributeur). 2017. Biodiversité, évolution et fonctionnement des écosystèmes. Prospectives de l’Institut Ecologie & Environnement (INEE), Compte-rendu des journées 22-24 février 2017, Bordeaux, Les Cahiers Perspectives, pp. 25-33.

• Fara, E. (2018) – Etudes des traces du Permien et du Trias de la bordure ardéchoise. Rapport d’étape n°2, Géopark du PNR des Monts d’Ardèche (24 pages), présentation au CS du PNR en mars 2018.

• Fara, E. (2022) – Etudes des traces fossiles de la bordure ardéchoise et action «analyse des empreintes dinosauroïdes du Trias Supérieur de St Julien du Serre ». Rapport d’étape n°3, Géopark du PNR des Monts d’Ardèche, 72p.

theses

• Fara E. 2011. “ De la Macroevolution à la Macroécologie: analyse multi-échelle de la biodiversité fossile » – Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR) soutenue le 18 novembre 2011 devant l’Université de Bourgogne [266 pages, en français et en anglais]

• Fara E. 2001. “ Macroevolutionary patterns and the quality of the fossil record: from data to processes” – Ph. D. (Philosophy Doctorate) soutenu le 20 Septembre 2001 devant l’Université of Bristol [en anglais; 318 pages; 87 figures; 1 CD-Rom]

• Fara E. 1998. “Les familles de tétrapodes au cours du Crétacé: diversité, paléoécologie, et registre fossile” – Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A.) soutenu le 25 Juin 1998 devant l’Université de Montpellier II [75 pages]