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Figure 6

From: Combining palaeontological and neontological data shows a delayed diversification burst of carcharhiniform sharks likely mediated by environmental change

Figure 6

Estimates of species lifespan from the fossil record and the molecular phylogeny for the clade gathering Galeocerdidae, Sphyrnidae, and Carcharhinidae. Species lifespan is determined by the times of speciation (Ts) and times of extinction (Te), as inferred with the fossil record for extinct species (yellow) and extant species having fossil occurrences (orange), and those inferred with the dated phylogeny for extant species only (blue). Summing up the number of species per million-year bins allows recovering the diversity dynamics of the clade through time. See Supplementary Data S14 for data on the entire Carcharhiniformes.

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