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

Jonathan P. Tennant; Philip D. Mannion; Paul Upchurch

doi:10.1038/ncomms12737

Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

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

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

Affiliations

Jonathan P. Tennant: Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
Philip D. Mannion: Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
Paul Upchurch: Department of Earth Sciences, University College London

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.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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