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Brown University

Ecosystem Markers

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A 50-million-year fossil record of ammonoids includes two kind of the nautilus-like creatures, swimmers and floaters. At two points of mass extinction, the swimming ammonoids disappear completely from the fossil record, according to researchers at Brown University and the University of Washington.

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Zittel, Textbook of Paleontology

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