Comment on "Lethally hot temperatures during the Early Triassic greenhouse"

N Goudemand; C Romano; A Brayard; P A Hochuli; H Bucher

doi:10.1126/science.1232924

Comment on "Lethally hot temperatures during the Early Triassic greenhouse"

Science. 2013 Mar 1;339(6123):1033. doi: 10.1126/science.1232924.

Authors

N Goudemand¹, C Romano, A Brayard, P A Hochuli, H Bucher

Affiliation

¹ Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. goudemand@pim.uzh.ch

PMID: 23449580
DOI: 10.1126/science.1232924

Abstract

Sun et al. (Reports, 19 October 2012, p. 366) reconstructed Permian to Middle Triassic equatorial seawater temperatures. After correct temporal positioning of their data points, their presumed trends of temperature changes, and hence their assumption of a one-to-one relationship between putative "lethally hot" seawater temperatures and a disputable equatorial "eclipse" of some organisms, are no longer supported by their data.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Animals
Aquatic Organisms*
Extinction, Biological*
Global Warming*
Greenhouse Effect*
Hot Temperature*