Comment on “An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks”

Autor(en)

Iris Feichtinger, Sylvain Adnet, Gilles Cuny, Guillaume Guinot, Jürgen Kriwet, Thomas A. Neubauer, Jürgen Pollerspöck, Kenshu Shimada, Nicolas Straube, Mathias Harzhauser

Abstrakt

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(en)

Institut für Paläontologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Université Claude-Bernard-Lyon-I, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU), University of Bergen (UiB), Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHM), Université de Montpellier, Zoologische Staatssammlung München, DePaul University

Journal

Science

Band

374

Seiten

1-4

Anzahl der Seiten

4

ISSN

0036-8075

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abk0632

Publikationsdatum

12-2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

105118 Paläontologie

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

General

Link zum Portal

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