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Reined-in richness

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Analysis of Phanerozoic vertebrate community richness suggests there have been constraints on tetrapod diversity dynamics over much of their evolutionary history.

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Fig. 1: New approaches to counting fossil taxa are changing the picture of biodiversity over Earth’s history.

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Linda C. Ivany

  2. Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Jesse Czekanski-Moir

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Ivany, L.C., Czekanski-Moir, J. Reined-in richness. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 520–521 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0863-9

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