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Phanerozoic Evolution of Macroinvertebrate Shell Accumulations: Preliminary Data from the Jurassic of Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2017

Susan M. Kidwell
Susan M. Kidwell*
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Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago IL 60637, U.S.A.
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Given sweeping evolutionary changes in the diversity and environmental deployment of species that produce shells, destroy shells, and otherwise interact with shells, it would be surprising if patterns of shell accumulation did not change over Phanerozoic time. Documentation of such patterns might indicate how and to what degree post-mortem bias has changed, and thus the taphonomic comparability of data sets used in paleobiologic modelling. At the same time, long-term patterns in shell accumulation can be products of evolutionary ecology, and thus represent an underexploited source of paleobiological insight themselves.

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The Paleontological Society Special Publications , Volume 5: Paleocommunity Temporal Dynamics: The Long-Term Development of Multispecies Assemblies , 1990 , pp. 309 - 327
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Copyright © 1990 Paleontological Society 

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