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    The Mesozoic marine revolution (MMR) refers to the increase in shell-crushing (durophagous) and boring predation in benthic organisms throughout the Mesozoic...
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  • during this event. The Cretaceous crab revolution is a smaller component of the greater Mesozoic marine revolution. The oldest known true crabs are Eoprosopon...
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    Echinoderm (category Marine animals)
    hold that the radiation of echinoderms was responsible for the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. The name echinoderm is from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos) 'hedgehog'...
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    Mesozoic eras. It is the Earth's most severe known extinction event, with the extinction of 57% of biological families, 83% of genera, 81% of marine species...
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    List of examples of convergent evolution Cretaceous crab revolution Mesozoic marine revolution Orthogenesis (comparable with convergent evolution but involving...
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  • mortality rate Mean-motion resonance, between two orbiting bodies Mesozoic Marine Revolution, a burst of evolution Meet-me room, where telecoms companies can...
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  • Carboniferous-Earliest Permian Biodiversification Event Mesozoic–Cenozoic radiation Mesozoic marine revolution Evolutionary fauna Munnecke, A.; Calner, M.; Harper...
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    scientists that the radiation of echinoderms was responsible for the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. Echinoderm literally means "spiny skin", as this water melon...
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    sessility. This radiation occurred somewhat earlier than the Mesozoic marine revolution, possibly because it was mainly prompted by increases in benthic...
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    and diversification of modern coleoid cephalopods during the Mesozoic Marine Revolution". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284...
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  • trace-making organisms. It is subdivided into three eras, the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic, with major mass extinctions at division points. 538.8 Ma...
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    major shift came with the Permian extinction, as a result of the Mesozoic marine revolution. Before the extinction event, brachiopods were more numerous and...
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    scientists that the radiation of echinoderms was responsible for the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. Aside from the hard-to-classify Arkarua (a Precambrian animal...
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    Neoarchean, Paleoproterozoic, Mesoproterozoic, Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic, with none from the Hadean eon. A period is equivalent to...
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  • went extinct. The KTR may have supercharged the contemporary Mesozoic Marine Revolution (MMR) by enhancing weathering and erosion, accelerating the flow...
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  • the Mesozoic era and of the age of the dinosaurs. c. 251.9 Ma ± 0.024 Ma – Mesozoic era and Triassic Period begin. Mesozoic Marine Revolution begins...
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  • S. (2024). "The demise of large tropical brachiopods and the Mesozoic marine revolution". Royal Society Open Science. 11 (3). 231630. doi:10.1098/rsos...
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    been due to the rise of durophagous organisms as part of the Mesozoic marine revolution. In North America, conulariids are generally more common in rocks...
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    Brett, Carlton E. (1984). "The mid-Paleozoic precursor to the Mesozoic marine revolution". Paleobiology. 10 (2): 229–245. doi:10.1017/S0094837300008174...
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    radiation. Made known by its identification in marine invertebrates, this evolutionary radiation began in the Mesozoic, after the Permian extinctions, and continues...
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    Belemnitida (category Mesozoic cephalopods of Asia)
    for many Mesozoic marine creatures, both the adults and the planktonic juveniles and they likely played an important role in restructuring marine ecosystems...
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    Crinoid Endoxocrinus parrae (Gervais) and Implications for the Mesozoic Marine Revolution". Paleobiology. 22 (3): 339–351. doi:10.1017/S0094837300016328...
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    Effects of Mesozoic Marine Revolution on the Taxonomic, Morphologic and Biogeographic Evolution of a Group: Aporrhaid Gastropods During the Mesozoic, Paleobiology...
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  • Cenozoic intensification of this predation, and argue that the Mesozoic marine revolution was more likely a series of asynchronous processes with variable...
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  • Phanerozoic. The Phanerozoic is divided into three eras: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic, which are further subdivided into 12 periods. The Paleozoic...
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  • Forsythe, Graham T. W.; Palmer, Tim (1998). "Taphonomy and the Mesozoic Marine Revolution: Preservation State Masks the Importance of Boring Predators"...
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  • coprolites from the latest Triassic of the UK: From Buckland to the Mesozoic Marine Revolution". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 131 (6): 699–721...
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    approximately 145 Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic Era and is named after the Jura Mountains, where limestone strata from...
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    Ichthyosauria (category Mesozoic reptiles)
    Martill, D.M. (1987). "Prokaryote mats replacing soft tissues in Mesozoic marine reptiles". Modern Geology. 11: 265–269. Lingham-Soliar, T (1999). "Rare...
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    List of echinoderms of South Africa (category Marine biota of South Africa)
    hold that the radiation of echinoderms was responsible for the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. (Full article...) Coscinasterias calamaria (Gray, 1840) Many...
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