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Science 27 November 1981:
Vol. 214. no. 4524, pp. 1024 - 1026
DOI: 10.1126/science.214.4524.1024
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Predation Through Geological Time: Evidence from Gastropod Shell Repair

GEERAT J. VERMEIJ 1, DAVID E. SCHINDEL 2, and EDITH ZIPSER 3

1 Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park 20742
2 Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
3 Department of Zoology, University of Maryland

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.

Submitted on January 29, 1981
Revised on August 12, 1981


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