Palaeobiology: Born and Gone in Global Warming

Ryosuke Motani

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.014

Palaeobiology: Born and Gone in Global Warming

Curr Biol. 2016 Jun 6;26(11):R466-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.014.

Author

Ryosuke Motani¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA. Electronic address: rmotani@ucdavis.edu.

PMID: 27269723
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.014

Abstract

Why ichthyosaurs - marine Mesozoic reptiles - disappeared before the dinosaur extinction has remained a mystery. New research suggests they may have gone extinct stepwise, during one of the most extreme greenhouse periods in the history of complex life-forms.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution*
Global Warming*
Reptiles