Comment on “An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks”
- Author(s)
- Iris Feichtinger, Sylvain Adnet, Gilles Cuny, Guillaume Guinot, Jürgen Kriwet, Thomas A. Neubauer, Jürgen Pollerspöck, Kenshu Shimada, Nicolas Straube, Mathias Harzhauser
- Abstract
Sibert and Rubin (Reports, 4 June 2021, p. 1105) claim to have identified a previously unidentified, major extinction event of open-ocean sharks in the early Miocene. We argue that their interpretations are based on an experimental design that does not account for a considerable rise in the sedimentation rate coinciding with the proposed event, nor for intraspecific variation in denticle morphology.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Palaeontology
- External organisation(s)
- Université Claude-Bernard-Lyon-I, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU), University of Bergen (UiB), Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHM), University of Montpellier, Staatl Nat Wissensch Sammlungen Bayerns, Zool Staatssammlung Munchen, DePaul University
- Journal
- Science
- Volume
- 374
- Pages
- 1-4
- No. of pages
- 4
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abk0632
- Publication date
- 12-2021
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105118 Palaeontology
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/bc0cd425-409b-444a-8f04-fcd774ecd9e7