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- Title
Decoupled temporal patterns of evolution and ecology in two post-Paleozoic clades.
- Authors
McKinney, F K; Lidgard, S; Sepkoski, J J, Jr; Taylor, P D
- Abstract
Counts of taxonomic diversity are the prevailing standards for documenting large-scale patterns of evolution in the fossil record. However, the secular pattern of relative ecological importance between the bryozoan clades Cyclostomata and Cheilostomata is not reflected fully in compilations of generic diversity or within-fauna species richness, and the delayed ecological recovery of the Cheilostomata after the mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary is missed entirely. These observations demonstrate that evolutionary success and ecological dominance can be decoupled and profoundly different, even over tens of millions of years.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 1998, Vol 281, Issue 5378, p807
- ISSN
0036-8075
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.281.5378.807