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. 2016 Nov 2;14(11):e2000724. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2000724

Fig 1. The history of biodiversity on land and in the sea.

Fig 1

Note the postulated cross-over 125 million years ago, when life on land (brown line) became more diverse than life in the sea (blue line). The species-level plots are extrapolated from family-level plots in [5], and ideas expressed in [10]. Abbreviations: C, Cambrian; Crb, Carboniferous; Cret, Cretaceous; D, Devonian; J, Jurassic; O, Ordovician; P, permian; S, Silurian; Tert, Tertiary; Tr, Triassic; V, Vendian. Drafted by Simon Powell (University of Bristol).