UCSB researcher leads worldwide study on marine fossil diversity

It took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers, and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but John Alroy thinks he's disproved much of the conventional wisdom about the diversity of marine fossils and extinction rates.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news134989855.html">UCSB researcher leads worldwide study on marine fossil diversity</a></p> <p>It took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers, and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but John Alroy thinks he's disproved much of the conventional wisdom about the diversity of marine fossils and extinction rates.</p>