The Late Mesozoic (Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous) could represent a peak in planktic productivity as indicated by the evolution of very large deposit-feeding nerineoidean gastropods which reached lengths of 50 cm beginning in the Late Jurassic [70 ], and by a size maximum in suspension-feeding bivalves in the Late Cretaceous (Table 1 ) and of suspension-feeding gastropods (Gigantocapulus schmitti, length 400 mm) [71, 72 ].

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Biology is orthodoxly the part of science that deals directly with the phenomena of living matter.

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