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Reefal regions were biodiversity hotspots throughout the Phanerozoic.
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- Global patterns are key to understanding macroevolution.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Marine biodiversity was greater in the presence of ecosystem engineers throughout the Phanerozoic.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte.Science advances · 2026Article
- The rise and fall of the world's greatest marine biodiversity hotspot.Science advances · 2026Article
- Habitat-specific temporal variation in the pace of fish diversification.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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Abstract
Reefs are important hotspots of marine biodiversity today and have acted as cradles of diversification in the geological past. However, we know little about how the diversity of reef-supporting regions varied through deep time, and how this differed from other regions. We quantified regional diversity patterns in reef-supporting and non-reef-supporting regions in the fossil record of Phanerozoic marine invertebrates. Diversity in reef-supporting regions is on average two- to threefold higher than in non-reef-supporting regions and has been remarkably stable over timescales of tens to hundreds of millions of years. This signal is present in both reefal and non-reefal facies within reef-supporting regions, suggesting that reefs enriched diversity in surrounding environments. Sepkoski's "Modern Fauna," an assemblage of higher taxa that includes gastropods, bivalves, and echinoids, has been a key component of reef-supporting regions since the Paleozoic, contrasting with its later rise to dominance in non-reef-supporting regions during the later Mesozoic-Cenozoic.
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