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Greenhouse−icehouse transition in the Late Ordovician marks a step change in extinction regime in the marine plankton

Two distinct regimes of extinction dynamic are present in the major marine zooplankton group, the graptolites, during the Ordovician and Silurian periods (486−418 Ma). In conditions of “background” extinction, which dominated in the Ordovician, taxonomic evolutionary rates were relatively low and th...

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Published in:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Main Authors: Crampton, James S., Cooper, Roger A., Sadler, Peter M., Foote, Michael
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4760818/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26811471
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519092113
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