“The focus is the most severe mass extinction known in earth's history. The science on which
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The Permo-Triassic crisis was a major turning point in geological history. Following the end-
Guadalupian extinction phase, the Palaeozoic biota underwent a steady decline through the …

A reduction in body size (Lilliput effect) has been repeatedly proposed for many marine
organisms in the aftermath of the Permian–Triassic (PT) mass extinction. Specifically …

A review of the literature shows that understanding of biotic restructuring following the
Permo-Triassic mass extinction (PTME) is typically based on only a few components of the …

The late Early Triassic sedimentary–facies evolution and carbonate carbon-isotope marine
record (δ13Ccarb) of ammonoid-rich, outer platform settings show striking similarities …

1985; Signor 1985), accelerating during the Cretaceous with the radiation of neogastropods
and other predatory gastropods (Sohl 1964; Taylor et al. 1980), suggesting that diet and …

After the end-Permian mass extinction, microbialites were widespread in the shallow marine
environments in South China. Diverse microbialites are characteristic of the Early Triassic …

D. Jablonski [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 8139–8144 (2002)] coined the term “dead
clades walking”(DCWs) to describe marine fossil orders that experience significant drops in …

The shell of marine gastropods conserves and reflects early ontogeny, including embryonic
and larval stages, to a high degree when compared with other marine invertebrates …

The gastropod infraclass Euthyneura comprises at least 30,000 species of snails and slugs,
including nudibranch sea slugs, sea hares and garden snails, that flourish in various …