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SUBMITTER: Tennant JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5025807 | biostudies-other | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tennant Jonathan P JP Mannion Philip D PD Upchurch Paul P
Nature communications 20160902
Reconstructing deep time trends in biodiversity remains a central goal for palaeobiologists, but our understanding of the magnitude and tempo of extinctions and radiations is confounded by uneven sampling of the fossil record. In particular, the Jurassic/Cretaceous (J/K) boundary, 145 million years ago, remains poorly understood, despite an apparent minor extinction and the radiation of numerous important clades. Here we apply a rigorous subsampling approach to a comprehensive tetrapod fossil oc ...[more]