Little lasting impact of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum on shallow marine molluscan faunas (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Little lasting impact of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum on shallow marine molluscan faunas (1 of 1)

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Kapalmerella mortoni postmortoni, one of the mollusks to go extinct during global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), 56 million years ago.. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sep. 5th 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by Linda C. Ivany at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and colleagues was titled, "Little lasting impact of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum on shallow marine molluscan faunas."

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