Comparison of Modern and Fossil Mammal Communities (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Comparison of Modern and Fossil Mammal Communities

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This is a comparative analysis of fossil (gray shaded) and modern (light gray shaded) mammal communities. The study found little overlap between the types of mammals that thrived in the past versus in modern East African ecosystems.

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J. Tyler Faith adapted figure from Faith et. al., PNAS 2019

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