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Science 11 June 1993:
Vol. 260. no. 5114, pp. 1624 - 1626
DOI: 10.1126/science.260.5114.1624
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Diversity and Extinction of Tropical American Mollusks and Emergence of the Isthmus of Panama

Jeremy B. C. Jackson 1, Peter Jung 2, Anthony G. Coates 1, and Laurel S. Collins 3

1 Center for Tropical Paleoecology, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama
2 Naturhistorisches Museum, CH-4001, Basel, Switzerland
3 Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079

To whom correspondence should be addressed at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Unit 0948, APO AA 34002-0948, United States

The gradual closure of the Panamanian seaway and the resulting environmental change stimulated an increase in Caribbean molluscan diversity rather than the mass extinction hypothesized previously on the basis of inadequate data. Upheaval of molluscan faunas did occur suddenly throughout tropical America at the end of the Pliocene as a result of more subtle, unknown causes. There is no necessary correlation between the magnitude of regional shifts in abiotic conditions and the subsequent biological response.

Submitted on January 15, 1993
Accepted on April 26, 1993


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