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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 ...
An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp fall in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms .
The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), sometimes known as the end-Ordovician mass extinction or the Ordovician-Silurian extinction, is the first of the "big five" major mass extinction events in Earth's history, occurring roughly 445 million years ago (Ma). [1]
For the record: 2:18 p.m. May 31, 2023: An earlier version of this story misidentified the plant that was neither growing nor deteriorating.It was Sequoia sempervirens, or coast redwood, not ...
Volcanic activity, particularly that of large igneous provinces, has been speculated to have been the cause of the environmental crisis. [3] The emplacement of the Namaqualand–Garies dykes in South Africa has been dated to 485 mya, the time at which the Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event occurred, although there remains no unambiguous evidence of a causal relationship between this ...
The most famous of these mass extinction events — when an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, dooming the dinosaurs and many other species — is also the most recent. But ...
The cause of the Devonian period extinction 359 million years ago, ranked as one of the five great extinctions of life on Earth, remains a mystery. Now, a new study reveals the explosion of a ...
It is Earth's most severe known extinction event, [10] [11] with the extinction of 57% of biological families, 83% of genera, 81% of marine species [12] [13] [14] and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species. [15] It is also the greatest known mass extinction of insects. [16] It is the greatest of the "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic ...