Predation Through Geological Time: Evidence from Gastropod Shell Repair
- 27 November 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 214 (4524) , 1024-1026
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.214.4524.1024
Abstract
Warm-water marine gastropods from soft-bottom habitats show an increase in the incidence of breakage-resistant shell characteristics over geological time. The hypothesis that breakage became a more important component of selection in the middle of the Mesozoic Era is supported by the finding that frequencies of breakage-induced shell repair increased from the Pennsylvanian and Triassic periods to the Cretaceous, Miocene, and Recent.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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