TY - JOUR
AU - Visaggi, Christy C
AB - 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.
TI - Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates.
JF - Science (New York, N.Y.)
DO - 10.1126/science.1156963
DA - 2008-07-18
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/pubmed/phanerozoic-trends-in-the-global-diversity-of-marine-invertebrates-xoaMci4VuW
SP - 97
EP - 100
VL - 321
IS - 5885
DP - DeepDyve
ER -