extinction event
widespread and rapid decrease in the amount of life on earth
Middle Miocene disruption
mass extinction event; occurred ca. 14 Mya, during the Langhian stage of the Miocene, caused by a period of cooling
Olson's Extinction
mass extinction that occurred 273 million years ago in the early Guadalupian of the Permian period
bird extinction
extinction event
Lau event
mass extinction event in the Ludfordian age of the Silurian period, ca. 424 Ma
Permian-Triassic mass extinction
mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Period approximately 250 million years ago
Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction
mass extinction at the end of the Triassic
Quaternary extinction event
mass extinction event, around 10000 BCE, marking the end of the Pleistocene and the beginning of the Holocene, during which many megafauna species went extinct; hypothesized to be caused by human hunting and/or natural climate change
mid-Permian extinction
extinction of animal and plant life that occurred at the end of the Capitanian stage of the Guadalupian epoch of the Permian period, associated with the Emeishan Traps
Late Devonian extinction
mass extinction event, starting at the end of the Frasnian age of Upper Devonian around 372 million years ago
Holocene extinction
massive extinction event during the current Holocene geological epoch
Carboniferous rainforest collapse
extinction event; occurred ca. 305 Ma at the end of the Moscovian in the Carboniferous; altered the vast coal forests that covered the equatorial region of Euramerica, fragmenting them into ‘islands’, causing dwarfism and extinction of many species
Sauropod hiatus
absence of sauropods in the fossil record
Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction
extinction event ending the Mesozoic Era