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Researchers analyze why certain snail species survived the end-Triassic mass extinction as over half of other gastropod species were wiped out

Peer-Reviewed Publication

PLOS

Striactaeonina transatlantica, a representative of the Heterobranchia from the Early Jurassic of South America, ca. 190 million years before present.

image: The Heterobrachia was little affected by the end-Triassic mass extinction, possibly because of a flexible mode of feeding of the larvae, an adaptation to relatively warm temperatures, and a flexible attachment of the mantle that allowed for covering the shell. view more 

Credit: Mariel Ferrari, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276329

Article Title: Gastropods underwent a major taxonomic turnover during the end-Triassic marine mass extinction event

Author Countries: Argentina, Switzerland

Funding: This research was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), grant IZSEZ0_193022/1 to MH. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Journal

PLOS One

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0276329

Article Title

Gastropods underwent a major taxonomic turnover during the end-Triassic marine mass extinction event

Article Publication Date

2-Nov-2022

COI Statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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