Figure 31.5 Change in Diversity as Pangaea Fragmented

Click through these images to see how tetrapod diversity (number of tetrapod families, depicted by the solid black line) and global average temperature (dashed green line) changed during the fragmentation of Pangaea.

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Source: Adapted from: Jordan MR. et al. (2016) Quantifying the effects of the break up of Pangaea on global terrestrial diversification with neutral theory. Phil Trans R Soc Biol, 371 (1691).

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