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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction...
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    P–Tr) extinction event (PTME; also known as the Late Permian extinction event, the Latest Permian extinction event, the End-Permian extinction event, and...
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    Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant...
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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME)...
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    Holocene extinction, or Anthropocene extinction, is the ongoing extinction event caused by humans during the Holocene epoch. These extinctions span numerous...
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    The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafaunal (typically defined as having body masses...
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  • extinction event in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An extinction event, in biology and paleontology, refers to a mass extinction. Extinction Event may...
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    This is a list of extinction events, both mass and minor:   "Big Five" major extinction events (see graphic) Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic...
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    consisted of several extinction events in the Late Devonian Epoch, which collectively represent one of the five largest mass extinction events in the history...
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    end-Ordovician mass extinction or the Ordovician-Silurian extinction, is the first of the "big five" major mass extinction events in Earth's history,...
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    extinction event, the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary mass extinction, the pre-Lopingian crisis, or the Middle Permian extinction, was an extinction event...
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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Eocene–Oligocene extinction event, also called...
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    Human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact...
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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event, also...
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    Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member. A taxon may become functionally extinct before the death of its last member if...
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  • The Toarcian extinction event, also called the Pliensbachian-Toarcian extinction event, the Early Toarcian mass extinction, the Early Toarcian palaeoenvironmental...
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  • The Extinction Event is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based...
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  • Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front is the third studio album by American rapper and record producer Busta Rhymes. It was released on December...
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  • The Hangenberg event, also known as the Hangenberg crisis or end-Devonian extinction, is a mass extinction that occurred at the end of the Famennian stage...
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    research has been conducted on the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the mass extinction that ended the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic Era and set the...
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  • extinction event. It has been referred to as the Tithonian extinction, Jurassic-Cretaceous (J–K) extinction, or end-Jurassic extinction. This event was...
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    million years ago, believed to be the cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Small objects frequently collide with Earth. There is an inverse relationship...
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  • Glaciation is one factor that leads to local extinction. This was the case during the Pleistocene glaciation event in North America. During this period, most...
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    other long-term events, because of observation selection effects. Unlike with most events, the failure of a complete extinction event to occur in the...
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  • In ecology, extinction debt is the future extinction of species due to events in the past. The phrases dead clade walking and survival without recovery...
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  • Event horizon, a boundary in spacetime, typically surrounding a black hole, beyond which events cannot affect an exterior observer Extinction event,...
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    became the dominant terrestrial vertebrates after the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event 201.3 mya and their dominance continued throughout the Jurassic and...
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  • Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event, also known as the Cenomanian-Turonian extinction, Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE 2), and referred to also...
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    boundary event, often called the Smithian–Spathian extinction, were 'disaster taxa': Palaeozoic species that survived the Permian–Triassic extinction event and...
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  • the Permian period, predating the much larger Permian–Triassic extinction event. The event is named after American paleontologist Everett C. Olson, who...
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