The sequence of marine and marginal-marine silts and sands of the US Middle Atlantic
Coastal Plain preserves a relatively complete record of Pliocene sea-level highstands. A …

Major changes in the marine biota of the western Atlantic region occurred over the last five
million years, but the causes of these changes, and especially the relative roles of changes …

> The rich fossil record of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the United States is a gold
mine for interested scientists. The last thirty million years of Earth history are superbly …

About 70 percent of tropical western Atlantic mollusk species have become extinct since the
Pliocene, which has led to perceptions of a corresponding decline in diversity. However, a …

Predation by drilling gastropods provides evidence of predator–prey interactions usually
lacking in the fossil record of other systems; the record of gastropod drilling has been used …

Global palaeoclimate reconstructions have been invaluable to our understanding of the
causes and effects of climate change, but single-temperature representations of the oceanic …

Tertiary Crassostrea oysters grew large and thick shells, whereas their descendants, living
Crassostrea, grow comparatively smaller and thinner shells. To test for ecological …

Many Tertiary species of Crassostrea appear to have inhabited shallow-marine
environments where they produced extremely large and thick shells. In contrast, living …

Stable oxygen and carbon isotope profiles from fossil scallop shells provide detailed
paleoenvironmental information for the Pliocene and early Pleistocene of the Middle Atlantic …

Many fossil assemblages are time-averaged, with multiple generations of organisms mixed
into a single stratigraphic horizon. A time-averaged sample of a taxon should be more …