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Late Ordovician mass extinction: 445-444 Ma Global cooling and sea level drop, and/or global warming related to volcanism and anoxia [43] Cambrian: Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event: 488 Ma: Kalkarindji Large Igneous Province? [44] Dresbachian extinction event: 502 Ma: End-Botomian extinction event: 517 Ma: Precambrian: End-Ediacaran ...
Sea-level falls are associated with most of the mass extinctions, including all of the "Big Five"—End-Ordovician, Late Devonian, End-Permian, End-Triassic, and End-Cretaceous, along with the more recently recognised Capitanian mass extinction of comparable severity to the Big Five. [140] [141]
Plants are relatively immune to mass extinction, with the impact of all the major mass extinctions "insignificant" at a family level. [44] [dubious – discuss] Floral diversity losses were more superficial than those of marine animals. [150] Even the reduction observed in species diversity (of 50%) may be mostly due to taphonomic processes.
Deeper in time, a mass extinction event that ended the Devonian Period, a geological era when life thrived on land for the first time, was also attributed to a hyperthermal event likely triggered ...
The first known mass extinction was the Great Oxidation Event 2.4 billion years ago, which killed most of the planet's obligate anaerobes. Researchers have identified five other major extinction events in Earth's history, with estimated losses below: [11] End Ordovician: 440 million years ago, 86% of all species lost, including graptolites
Wikipedia categories named after mass extinctions (3 C) D. Documentary films about extinctions (5 P) P. Phanerozoic extinctions (5 C) T. Mass extinction timelines (3 ...
Scientists, conservationists and government representatives will gather this week in Montreal to decide on a plan to stop a stunning loss of plant and animal life around the globe. The United ...
Artist's rendering of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, triggering events that caused a mass extermination. Roger Harris/Science Photo library via Getty ...