Fig. 3 in Like phoenix from the ashes: How modern baleen whales arose from a fossil "dark age" ...

• Main Authors: Marx, Felix G., Fitzgerald, Erich M.G., Fordyce, R. Ewan
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Fitzgerald; New Zealand; baleen whales
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13261413; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13261413

Fig. 3. Patterns and potential drivers of the early Miocene "dark age". A. Extinction of toothed mysticetes and eomysticetids at the beginning of the early Miocene "dark age", and subsequent reinvasion of coastal habitats by larger, toothless filter feeding mysticetes during the middle Miocene. The occurrence of eomysticetids in the earliest Miocene is based on a single, fragmentary specimen from New Zealand (Boessenecker and Fordyce 2017b). B. Global oxygen isotope curve, showing the timing of the mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum (Zachos et al. 2008). C. Global sea-level change (Miller et al. 2005). D. Global diatom abundance as derived from Deep-Sea Drilling Programme/Ocean Drilling Programme smear slides (Renaudie 2016). Highlighted events potentially relevant to the "dark age": 1, a 0.5 shift in δ18O; 2, a 40 m sea-level fall; and 3, an early Miocene decrease in global diatom abundance. Reconstructions of mysticetes by Carl Buell. ... : Published as part of Marx, Felix G., Fitzgerald, Erich M.G. & Fordyce, R. Ewan, 2019, Like phoenix from the ashes: How modern baleen whales arose from a fossil "dark age", pp. 231-238 in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (2) on page 235, DOI: 10.4202/app.00575.2018, http://zenodo.org/record/13261408 ...