The Last Great Sponge Reefs

Описание: Reefs haven't always been dominated by corals. More than 260 million years ago, massive sponges were the ones that built reefs across the world. But these reefs were about to face an unknown crisis that would make them the last of their kind.

I hope it was worth the time it took to make. When I started this in April, I was still an undergraduate. Now I'm elderly.

Sources and Additional Reading:

The Difference Between...Rugose, Tabulate and Scleractinian corals
https://palaeopost.blogspot.com/2016/...

Different Phanerozoic Reefbuilders
https://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/geol...

The ecological evolution of reefs
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Permian Reefs and Carbonate Complexes, West Texas
http://sunstar-solutions.com/sunstar/...

Guadalupe Mountains National Park
https://www.nps.gov/gumo/learn/nature...

Introduction to the Geology of the Permian Reef Complex, Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains, New Mexico & West Texas
https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/tour/federal/...

The Final Extinction of Trilobites
https://www.trilobites.info/lasttrilo...

Mass Extinction and their Aftermath [Freshwater Eurypterids]
https://books.google.com/books?id=06y...

Paleozoogeography of Late Paleozoic and Triassic Malacostraca
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2412793?...

"Earth" shrimp ah, real shrimp, really shrimp, is real shrimp...[Badly auto-translated Chinese title]
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/55133790

Pygocephalus from the Upper Carboniferous of the Soviet Union
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1304160?...

Miscellaneous Late Paleozoic Malacostraca of the Soviet Union [Isopod]
https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/22275/2...

Isopoda
http://tolweb.org/Isopoda/6320/1997.0...

On the Fossil Anaspidacea, with a Revision of the Classification of the Syncarida
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2010...

Bringing Fossils to Life Through Art [Mantis Shrimp]
https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/brin...

Model-based multi-locus estimation of decapod phylogeny and divergence times
https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/10268/1...

Latest Permian deep-water ostracods from southwestern Guangxi, South China
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Crustaceans from bitumen clast in Carboniferous glacial diamictite extend fossil record of copepods
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomm...

Deep-sea benthopelagic calanoid copepods and their colonization of the near-bottom environment
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper...

Volcanism, Mass Extinction, and Carbon Isotope Fluctuations in the Middle Permian of China
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

The Middle Permian (Capitanian) mass extinction on land and in the oceans
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

The Capitanian Age of the Guadalupian Epoch: 260 to 266 million years ago
http://palaeos.com/paleozoic/permian/...

Restoration of reef ecosystems following the Guadalupian–Lopingian boundary mass extinction: Evidence from the Laibin area, South China
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Permian reefs re-examined: extrinsic control mechanisms of gradual and abrupt changes during 40 my of reef evolution
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...