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- Title
- Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates
- Related
- Science, Vol. 321, No. 5885 (2008), p.97-100
- DOI
- 10.1126/science.1156963
- Publisher
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Date
- 2008
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
-
040300 Geology
- Author/Creator
- Alroy, John
- Author/Creator
- Aberhan, Martin
- Author/Creator
- Kosnik, Matthew A
- Author/Creator
- Marshall, Charles R
- Author/Creator
- McGowan, Alistair J
- Author/Creator
- Miller, Arnold I
- Author/Creator
- Olszewski, Thomas D
- Author/Creator
- Patzkowsky, Mark E
- Author/Creator
- Peters, Shanan E
- Author/Creator
- Villier, Loïc
- Author/Creator
- Wagner, Peter J
- Author/Creator
- Bonuso, Nicole
- Author/Creator
- Bottjer, David J
- Author/Creator
- Borkow, Philip S
- Author/Creator
- Brenneis, Benjamin
- Author/Creator
- Clapham, Matthew E
- Author/Creator
- Fall, Leigh M
- Author/Creator
- Ferguson, Chad A
- Author/Creator
- Hanson, Victoria L
- Author/Creator
- Krug, Andrew Z
- Author/Creator
- Layou, Karen M
- Author/Creator
- Leckey, Erin H
- Author/Creator
- Nürnberg, Sabine
- Author/Creator
- Foote, Michael
- Author/Creator
- Powers, Catherine M
- Author/Creator
- Sessa, Jocelyn A
- Author/Creator
- Simpson, Carl
- Author/Creator
- Tomašových, Adam
- Author/Creator
- Visaggi, Christy C
- Author/Creator
- Fürsich, Franz T
- Author/Creator
- Harries, Peter J
- Author/Creator
- Hendy, Austin J. W
- Author/Creator
- Holland, Steven M
- Author/Creator
- Ivany, Linda C
- Author/Creator
- Kiessling, Wolfgang
- Description
- It has previously been thought that there was a steep Cretaceous and Cenozoic radiation of marine invertebrates. This pattern can be replicated with a new data set of fossil occurrences representing 3.5 million specimens, but only when older analytical protocols are used. Moreover, analyses that employ sampling standardization and more robust counting methods show a modest rise in diversity with no clear trend after the mid-Cretaceous. Globally, locally, and at both high and low latitudes, diversity was less than twice as high in the Neogene as in the mid-Paleozoic. The ratio of global to local richness has changed little, and a latitudinal diversity gradient was present in the early Paleozoic.
- Description
- 4 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 040300 Geology
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Biological Sciences
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/116976
- Identifier
- ISSN:0036-8075
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2009011217
- Language
- eng
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