Populating a post-extinction world: the resurgence of vertebrate diversity in the early Carboniferous

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• Prof. Jenny Clack, Zoology
• Monday 14 November 2016, 17:00-18:00
• Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

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The Hangenberg event at the end of Late Devonian affected continental ecology with the loss many vertebrate groups. Until recently, the following 20 My was considered a depauperate interval for continental vertebrate fossils especially tetrapods. Our work in the Tournaisian has uncovered many new chondrichthyans, lungfishes and tetrapods. Instead, the Tournaisian saw a rapid diversification of these groups. Recovery from the Hangenberg event reset the trajectory of vertebrate evolution to the present day.

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