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. 2012 Feb 15;279(1737):2448–2456. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2621

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Stratigraphic ranges of recorded reef coral genera (total = 43) within the Caribbean region from 6.8 Ma to Recent. Of the 18 genera that went regionally extinct in the Caribbean, 12 persist in the Indo-Pacific today. Key palaeo-environmental events, including closure of the Central American Seaway (CAS) and the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation (NHG), are highlighted next to the global sea-level curve of Miller et al. [8].