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High abundance of Early Miocene sea cows from Qatar shows repeated evolution of seagrass ecosystem engineers in Eastern Tethys.

Nicholas D Pyenson, Ferhan Sakal, Jacques LeBlanc, Jon Blundell, Katherine D Klim, Christopher D Marshall, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Katherine Wolfe, Faisal Al-Naimi

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9 authors.

Nicholas D PyensonDepartment of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America.
Ferhan SakalDepartment of Archaeology, Qatar Museums, Doha, Qatar.
Jacques LeBlancPanama City, Panama.
Jon BlundellDigitization Program Office, Office of Digital Transformation, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America.
Katherine D KlimStone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bethesda, MD, United States of America.
Christopher D MarshallDepartment of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States of America.
Jorge Velez-JuarbeDepartment of Mammalogy, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
Katherine WolfeDigitization Program Office, Office of Digital Transformation, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America.
Faisal Al-NaimiDepartment of Archaeology, Qatar Museums, Doha, Qatar.

Funding

Kellogg Fund and the MacMillan Fund from the Department of PaleobiologyOffice of the Associate Director for Science and Chief Scientist at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural HistoryQatar National Research Fund
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coastal ecosystems that include seagrasses are potential carbon sinks that require strategic conservation of top trophic consumers, such as dugongs, to maintain their function. It is unclear, however, how long seagrass ecosystems have persisted in geologic time because their fossil record is poor, although the record of their associated vertebrate consumers offers useful proxies. Here we describe an area of dense Early Miocene dugongid remains from Qatar. We documented over 172 sites in <1 km

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Biological EvolutionDugongEcosystemFossilsAnimalsQatarEvolutionFossil recordMarine mammalPaleoecologySeagrasses

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PMCPMC12701702

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