Morphological complexity promotes origination and extinction rates in ammonoids

2024/11/04 by Luyi Miao, Xiaokang Liu, Arnaud Brayard +3 · 1 voice
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Marine Biology and Ecology Research #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.014

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Citations

• Cope’s Rule and the Universal Scaling Law of Ornament Complexity
• The Mesozoic marine revolution: evidence from snails, predators and grazers
• Ammonoid Paleobiology: From anatomy to ecology
• Evolution of complexity and natural selection: Suture complexity and its relation to taxonomic longevity in Cretaceous ammonoids

Discussions

• This is a dispatch concerning the following paper which investigated the link between ornamentation complexity in ammonoid shells and high turnover rates: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]