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Large scale periods of stability in fossil communities are known as Ecological Evolutionary (EEUs) Units (Boucot 1983, 1986, 1990; Sheehan 1991, 1996; Holterhoff 1996), and they are separated by periods of rapid reorganization in community interrelations (Brett et al. 1990; Brett and Baird 1995; Holterhoff 1996; Ivany et al. 2009).

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Bose, R. (2013). Introduction. In: Palaeobiology of Middle Paleozoic Marine Brachiopods. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00194-4_1

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