unset key set xrange [-350:-160] set yrange [0:1.5] set xlabel "Millions of years ago" offset 0,0.5 set tics scale 0.33 unset ytics unset grid # High oxygen. Read off from figure in Perspective Atmospheric oxygen over # Phanerozoic time; PNAS Vol. 96, Issue 20, 10955-10957, September 28, 1999 # Followed by a 60 Myr period of unusually low oxygen concentrations, before # going returning to the norm set object rectangle from -370 ,0.55 to -345 ,0.95 lw 0 fc rgb "#ddddff" # >21 set object rectangle from -345 ,0.55 to -328 ,0.95 lw 0 fc rgb "#bbbbff" # >25 set object rectangle from -328 ,0.55 to -305 ,0.95 lw 0 fc rgb "#9999ff" # >30 set object rectangle from -305 ,0.55 to -287 ,0.95 lw 0 fc rgb "#7777ff" # >35 set object rectangle from -287 ,0.55 to -272 ,0.95 lw 0 fc rgb "#9999ff" # >30 set object rectangle from -272 ,0.55 to -259 ,0.95 lw 0 fc rgb "#bbbbff" # >25 set object rectangle from -259 ,0.55 to -248 ,0.95 lw 0 fc rgb "#ddddff" front # >21 set object rectangle from -248 ,0.55 to -215 ,0.95 lw 0 fc rgb "#dd99ff" # low set object rectangle from -215 ,0.55 to -70 ,0.95 lw 0 fc rgb "#ddddff" # >21 set label "High oxygen concentration" at (-350+-248)/2,0.83 center font ",22" set label ">25%" at (-345+-328)/2,0.68 center font ",14" set label ">30%" at (-328+-305)/2,0.68 center font ",14" set label ">35%" at (-305+-287)/2,0.68 center font ",14" set label ">30%" at (-287+-272)/2,0.68 center font ",14" set label ">25%" at (-272+-259)/2,0.68 center font ",14" set label ">21%" at (-259+-248)/2,0.68 center font ",14" front set label "Low oxygen" at (-248+-215)/2,0.83 center font ",22" set label "≈16%" at (-248+-215)/2,0.65 center font ",14" set label "Normal oxygen" at (-215+-160)/2,0.83 center font ",22" set label "20-23%" at (-215+-160)/2,0.65 center font ",14" # Meganisoptera # Start from https://www.britannica.com/animal/Odonata/Evolution-paleontology-and-classification # End from The Odonatoptera of the Late Permian Lodève Basin Journal of Iberian Geology 34 (1) 2008: 115-122 set object rectangle from -359 ,1.05 to -252-10,1.45 lw 0 fc rgb "#ff9999" set object rectangle from -252-10,1.05 to -252+10,1.45 lw 0 fc rgb "#ffdddd" front set label "Giant griffinflies" at (-359+-252)/2,1.25 center font ",22" set label "{/=14Extinction}\n{/=14roughly}\n{/=14here}" at -252,1.32 center font ",8" front # Pterosaurs # From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur # Divergence from non-flying ancestors from here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2858-8 set object rectangle from -245 ,0.05 to -228 ,0.45 lw 0 fc rgb "#ccffcc" set object rectangle from -228 ,0.05 to -66 ,0.45 lw 0 fc rgb "#77ff77" set label "Pterosaurs" at (-245+15+-160)/2,0.30 center font ",22" set label "Insects lose monopoly on flight" at (-245+15+-160)/2,0.15 center font ",14" set label "{/=14Pterosaurs}\n{/=14develop flight}\n{/=14around here}" at (-245+-228)/2,0.30 center font ",8" # Permian-Triassic mass extinction set arrow from -251.9,0 to -251.9,1.5 lw 2 dt 3 nohead set label "{/=18Permian-Triassic}\n{/=18mass extinction}" at -270,0.35 right font ",12" set arrow from -270,0.29 to -251.9,0.29 lt 1 lw 2 set term svg size 800,300 font ",16" set output "griffinfly_oxygen.svg" plot -100