Graptoloid diversity and disparity became decoupled during the Ordovician mass extinction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3428-3433

  Bapst, David W ^a,b   Bullock, Peter C ^c   Melchin, Michael J ^c   Sheets, H David ^d   Mitchell, Charles E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CANISIUS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversification; Graptolites; Macroevolution; Nonadaptive radiation; Selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CLADISTICS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GRAPTOLOID; HIRNANTIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; NEW SPECIES; ORDOVICIAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

GRAPTOLOIDEA;

EID: 84857742697     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113870109     Document Type: Article

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