When looking over a vast time like this with a high levels of variations and varying local maximums and minimums, linear graphs become misleading. If you were going to include the Cretaceous you would have to plot it logorithmically, but at that point the graph becomes uninteresting because every peak except the current one would be just slim lines.
Edit: I saw my dead sibling pointed to a graph which is some weird logarithmic-linear hybrid, i.e. it show three distinct timeperiods in three different scales. This is indeed a rather odd way of representing data, and I don’t think it is helpful.
Edit: I saw my dead sibling pointed to a graph which is some weird logarithmic-linear hybrid, i.e. it show three distinct timeperiods in three different scales. This is indeed a rather odd way of representing data, and I don’t think it is helpful.