Presentation of the 2018 Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society to Seth Finnegan

Using body-size and abundance data from fossil and living gastropod communities, and metabolic data from living representatives of major groups, Seth demonstrated that the MMR was associated with at least a three-fold increase in the per-capita energy demands of marine gastropods. Seth's work h...

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Published in:Journal of paleontology 2019-09, Vol.93 (5), p.1040-1041
Main Author: Droser, Mary
Format: Article
Language:English
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Body size
Climate change
Flooding
Fossils
Global climate
Marine molluscs
Paleontology
Sea level
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Summary:Using body-size and abundance data from fossil and living gastropod communities, and metabolic data from living representatives of major groups, Seth demonstrated that the MMR was associated with at least a three-fold increase in the per-capita energy demands of marine gastropods. Seth's work has shown how glaciogenic sea level fall would have interacted with paleogeography and pre-glacial continental flooding to generate the observed diversity drop. [...]on the topic of extinctions, Seth has recently been able to adapt his skills to the societally relevant discipline of global climate change with a series of elegant papers using detailed analyses of various aspects of the fossil record to predict extinction risk (Finnegan et al., 2015; Orzechowski et al., 2015).
ISSN:0022-3360
1937-2337
DOI:10.1017/jpa.2019.43