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  2. Extinction event - Wikipedia

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    The largest extinction was the Kellwasser Event (Frasnian - Famennian, or F-F, 372 Ma), an extinction event at the end of the Frasnian, about midway through the Late Devonian. This extinction annihilated coral reefs and numerous tropical benthic (seabed-living) animals such as jawless fish, brachiopods, and trilobites.

  3. Permian–Triassic extinction event - Wikipedia

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    Permian–Triassic boundary at Frazer Beach in New South Wales, with the End Permian extinction event located just above the coal layer [2]. Approximately 251.9 million years ago, the Permian–Triassic (P–T, P–Tr) extinction event (PTME; also known as the Late Permian extinction event, [3] the Latest Permian extinction event, [4] the End-Permian extinction event, [5] [6] and colloquially ...

  4. Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event - Wikipedia

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    Rajgad Fort 's Citadel, an eroded hill from the Deccan Traps, which are another hypothesized cause of the K–Pg extinction event. The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, [a] also known as the K–T extinction, [b] was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth [2][3] approximately 66 million ...

  5. List of extinction events - Wikipedia

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    End-Jurassic (Tithonian) 145 Ma. No longer regarded as a major extinction but rather a series of lesser events due to bolide impacts, eruptions of flood basalts, climate change and disruptions to oceanic systems [16] Pliensbachian-Toarcian extinction (Toarcian turnover) 186-178 Ma.

  6. Climate across Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary - Wikipedia

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    The climate across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–Pg or formerly the K–T boundary) is very important to geologic time as it marks a catastrophic global extinction event. Numerous theories have been proposed as to why this extinction event happened including an asteroid known as the Chicxulub asteroid, volcanism, or sea level changes.

  7. Triassic–Jurassic extinction event - Wikipedia

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    The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME), often called the end-Triassic extinction, was a Mesozoic extinction event that marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, 201.4 million years ago, and is one of the top five major extinction events of the Phanerozoic eon, profoundly affecting life on land and in the oceans.

  8. Late Devonian extinction - Wikipedia

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    Plotted is the extinction intensity, calculated from marine genera. The Late Devonian extinction consisted of several extinction events in the Late Devonian Epoch, which collectively represent one of the five largest mass extinction events in the history of life on Earth. The term primarily refers to a major extinction, the Kellwasser event ...

  9. Timeline of extinctions in the Holocene - Wikipedia

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    1926 [ 415 ] Extermination campaign. The Great Plains wolf has been later determined to be continuous morphologically [ 410 ] and genetically [ 416 ] with the still existing Mexican wolf, which would use the name C. l. nubilus if placed in the same subspecies, due to being the older one. Red-moustached fruit dove.