Lost ecosystem found buried in mud of southern California coastal waters
These brachiopods and scallops had thrived along a section of coast stretching approximately 250 miles from San Diego to Santa Barbara for at least 4,000 years. But they had died off by the early 20th century, replaced by the mud-dwellling burrowing clams that inhabit this seabed today. Paleontologists Adam Tomašových of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Susan Kidwell of the University of Chicago examine the lost ecosystem in a study published online June 7 in the Royal Society Proceedings B.
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/06/lost-ecosystem-found-buried-in-mud-of-southern-california-coastal-waters/115332
