Geoconservation Research (Geoconserv. Res.) European UNESCO Geoparks: Introduction to Part II Volume 4 (2021) Issue 2, December 2021 - Paleontological Heritage and Geoconservation in the UNESCO European Geoparks (Part II) edited by Dan Grigorescu, Michael Benton, Vachik Hairapetian 2023 11 17 European UNESCO Geoparks: Introduction to Part II 10.30486/gcr.2021.687062 EN Michael J. Benton School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, United Kingdom 0000-0002-4323-1824 Journal Article 2023 11 17 The concept of the volume is to survey all the key geoparks throughout Europe in terms of their palaeontological significance. The second set of 36 articles in this Part cover the long span of geological time from the Triassic to the Quaternary, arranged in chronostratigraphic order. These document some of the most important stages in the history of life, especially focusing on life after the end-Permian mass extinction, as marine and terrestrial ecosystems rebuilt, and the ‘modern-style’ faunas and floras emerged.