Publication Date:
2007-06-02
Description:
The first appearances of aragonite and calcite skeletons in 18 animal clades that independently evolved mineralization during the late Ediacaran through the Ordovician (approximately 550 to 444 million years ago) correspond to intervals when seawater chemistry favored aragonite and calcite precipitation, respectively. Skeletal mineralogies rarely changed once skeletons evolved, despite subsequent changes in seawater chemistry. Thus, the selection of carbonate skeletal minerals appears to have been dictated by seawater chemistry at the time a clade first acquired its mineralized skeleton.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Porter, Susannah M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Jun 1;316(5829):1302.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Earth Science, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA. porter@geol.ucsb.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17540895" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Biological Evolution
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*Calcification, Physiologic
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Calcium/analysis
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Calcium Carbonate/*analysis
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Chemical Precipitation
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Crystallization
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*Fossils
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Invertebrates/*chemistry
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Magnesium/analysis
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Seawater/*chemistry
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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