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Science 9 April 1982:
Vol. 216. no. 4542, pp. 173 - 174
DOI: 10.1126/science.216.4542.173
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Tiering in Suspension-Feeding Communities on Soft Substrata Throughout the Phanerozoic

WILLIAM I. AUSICH 1 and DAVID J. BOTTJER 2

1 Department of Geological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435
2 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90007

Tiering of benthic marine suspension-feeding communities on soft substrata has varied throughout the Phanerozoic. Epifaunal tiering was most developed during the middle and late Paleozoic and the Triassic to Jurassic, with large-scale reductions in tiering occurring during the Permian-Triassic extinctions and after the Jurassic. Infaunal tiering reached its highest level of organization after the Paleozoic.

Submitted on October 8, 1981
Revised on January 19, 1982


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