ArticleBioscience2022
Rising from the Ashes: The Biogeographic Origins of Modern Coral Reef Fishes.
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- The present does not reflect the past: geographic mismatches between fossil and modern records are widespread across the tree of life.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte.Science advances · 2026Article
- Ecological and genomic signatures of the convergent evolution of planktivory in fossil and living reef fishes over deep time.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Integrating hotspot dynamics and centers of diversity: a review of Indo-Australian Archipelago biogeographic evolution and conservation.Marine life science & technology · 2025Article
- Phylogenomics establishes an Early Miocene reconstruction of reef vertebrate diversity.Science advances · 2025Article
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- The rise of dietary diversity in coral reef fishes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- The evolution of fast-growing coral reef fishes.Nature · 2023Article
- Syngnathoid Evolutionary History and the Conundrum of Fossil Misplacement.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
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Abstract
During the excavation of Mayan tombs, little did the archaeologists know that the fossils they discovered in the tomb stones would fundamentally alter our understanding of the earliest origins of coral reef fishes. Located just 500 kilometers from the point where an asteroid impact reconfigured the world's biological systems 66 million years ago, we find the earliest origins of three typical reef fish groups. Their presence in Mexico just 3 million years after this impact finally reconciles the conflict between the fossil and phylogenetic evidence for the earliest origins of reef fishes. The incorporation of these fossils into a global reconstruction of fish evolutionary history reveals a new picture of the early biogeography of reef fishes, with strong Atlantic links. From locations associated with biological destruction and societal collapse, we see evidence of the origins of one of the world's most diverse and spectacular marine ecosystems: coral reefs.
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