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Assessing Change in Biogenic Structures is Essential for Understanding Long-Term Community Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2017

Charles W. Byers  and
Molly F. Miller
Charles W. Byers
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
Molly F. Miller
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235
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In the fossil record of the Paleozoic, epifauna are typically shelly, whereas infauna are typically soft-bodied; the two groups have tended to be studied in isolation from one another, and commonly by different specialists. We believe that the understanding of patterns of distribution and evolution of epifauna cannot proceed in the absence of data on infauna. Over the past decade, several workers have attempted to combine information about the two groups into models of community evolution.

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