Evolutionary biology of the Devonian Brachiopoda of New York State: no correlation with rate of change of sea‐level?

Abstract

McGhee, G. R., Jr. 1992 04 15: Evolutionary biology of the Devonian Brachiopoda of New York State: no correlation with rate of change of sea-level?Lethaia, Vol. 25, pp. 165–172. Oslo. ISSN 0024–1164. Previous study has revealed the surprising lack of a relationship between relative sea-level position and the evolutionary biology of the Brachiopoda during the Devonian. To further explore this seeming anomaly, the potential relationship between the rate of change of sea-level and the evolutionary biology of these sessile benthic organisms is analyzed here. Successive linear modeling reveals a lack of correlation between the rate of change of sea-level and either extinction rate, origination rate, or diversity of the Devonian brachiopods. *Sea-level, rate of sea-level change, extinction, origination, diversity, Brachiopoda.