Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Sea level regulated tetrapod diversity dynamics through the Jurassic/Cretaceous interval

  • Jonathan P. Tennant,
  • Philip D. Mannion,
  • Paul Upchurch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12737
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Reconstructing biodiversity trends in deep time is confounded by uneven sampling of the available fossil record. Here the authors apply a subsampling approach to a tetrapod fossil occurrence dataset and show extinction of important clades was driven by variation in sea level.