Erin E. Saupe

Jan 20, 2025 | biorxiv.org | Roger Close |Roger Benson |Wolfgang Kiessling |Erin E. Saupe

AbstractReefs are important hotspots of marine biodiversity today, and acted as cradles of diversification in the geological past. However, we know little about how the diversity of reef-supporting regions varied through deep time, and how this differed from other regions. We quantified regional diversity patterns in reef-supporting and non-reef-supporting regions in the fossil record of Phanerozoic marine invertebrates.