Exstinctio maior

Exstinctio maior specierum viventium, casus rarus in palaeontologia, e variis causis orta esse censetur, inter quas calefactione globali, vulcanismo, illisione meteoritae magnae. Animalium marinorum quinque exstinctiones maiores enumerantur:

• Ordovicia Siluria
• Devonia superior seu Frasnia-Famennia
• Permia Triassica
• Triassica Iurassica
• Cretacea Palaeogenica

Bibliographia

• Borja Cascales-Miñana, Christopher J. Cleal, "The plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction events" in Terra nova vol. 26 (2014) pp. 195–200
• Patrick Greenfield, "UN draft plan sets 2030 target to avert Earth's sixth mass extinction" in The Guardian (13 Ianuarii 2020)
• Ch. Koeberl, "Massensterben und Impaktereignisse in der Erdgeschichte: Ein kurzer Überblick" in Denisia vol. 20 (2007) pp. 97–114
• Katja M. Meyer, Lee R. Kump, "Oceanic Euxinia in Earth History: Causes and Consequences" in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences vol. 36 (2008) pp. 251-288

Nexus interni

• Arma nuclearia
• Exstinctio humana

Nexus externi

• Sepkoski's Online Genus Database