Comment on “An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks”
Feichtinger, I.; Adnet, S.; Cuny, G.; Guinot, G.; Kriwet, J.; Neubauer, T.A.; Pollerspöck, J.; Shimada, K.; Straube, N.; Underwood, C.; Vullo, R.; Harzhauser, M. (2021). Comment on “An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks”. Science (Wash.) 374(6573): eabk063. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abk0632
In: Science (Washington). American Association for the Advancement of Science: New York, N.Y. ISSN 0036-8075; e-ISSN 1095-9203, more
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| Authors | | Top |
- Feichtinger, I.
- Adnet, S.
- Cuny, G.
- Guinot, G.
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- Kriwet, J.
- Neubauer, T.A.
- Pollerspöck, J.
- Shimada, K.
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- Straube, N.
- Underwood, C.
- Vullo, R.
- Harzhauser, M.
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| 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. |
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