{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["2"],"submitter":["Pimiento C"],"pubmed_abstract":["The modern marine megafauna is known to play important ecological roles and includes many charismatic species that have drawn the attention of both the scientific community and the public. However, the <i>extinct</i> marine megafauna has never been assessed as a whole, nor has it been defined in deep time. Here, we review the literature to define and list the species that constitute the <i>extinct</i> marine megafauna, and to explore biological and ecological patterns throughout the Phanerozoic. We propose a size cut-off of 1 m of length to define the extinct marine megafauna. Based on this definition, we list 706 taxa belonging to eight main groups. We found that the extinct marine megafauna was conspicuous over the Phanerozoic and ubiquitous across all geological eras and periods, with t"],"journal":["Cambridge prisms. Extinction"],"pagination":["e7"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11895749"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["The extinct marine megafauna of the Phanerozoic."],"pmcid":["PMC11895749"],"pubmed_authors":["Holdener G","Senn N","Rigendinger E","Kobelt S","Masseraz S","Pimiento C","Seige C","Baumann J","Ickin E","Klug C","Mehli I","Villafana JA","Gardiner AM","Guevara LJ","Argyriou T","Mathes GH","Gunter M","Ruckstuhl M","Buess T","Hatt P","Schneider S","Reiff S","Flueler L","Rogenmoser J","Zanatta C","Staccoli V","Spitznagel D","Jacober G","Valenzuela-Toro AM","Cadena EA","Scheyer TM","Kissling KC","Field DJ","Kocakova K","Cooper JA","Cortes D"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The extinct marine megafauna of the Phanerozoic.","description":"The modern marine megafauna is known to play important ecological roles and includes many charismatic species that have drawn the attention of both the scientific community and the public. However, the <i>extinct</i> marine megafauna has never been assessed as a whole, nor has it been defined in deep time. Here, we review the literature to define and list the species that constitute the <i>extinct</i> marine megafauna, and to explore biological and ecological patterns throughout the Phanerozoic. We propose a size cut-off of 1 m of length to define the extinct marine megafauna. Based on this definition, we list 706 taxa belonging to eight main groups. We found that the extinct marine megafauna was conspicuous over the Phanerozoic and ubiquitous across all geological eras and periods, with t","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024","modification":"2025-04-06T22:37:34.179Z","creation":"2025-04-04T02:54:06.734Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11895749","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40078799"],"doi":["10.1017/ext.2024.12"]}}