Paleozoic–Mesozoic Eustatic Changes and Mass Extinctions: New Insights from Event Interpretation
Recent eustatic reconstructions allow for reconsidering the relationships between the fifteen Paleozoic–Mesozoic mass extinctions (mid-Cambrian, end-Ordovician, Llandovery/Wenlock, Late Devonian, Devonian/Carboniferous, mid-Carboniferous, end-Guadalupian, end-Permian, two mid-Triassic, end-Triassic,...
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| description | Recent eustatic reconstructions allow for reconsidering the relationships between the fifteen Paleozoic–Mesozoic mass extinctions (mid-Cambrian, end-Ordovician, Llandovery/Wenlock, Late Devonian, Devonian/Carboniferous, mid-Carboniferous, end-Guadalupian, end-Permian, two mid-Triassic, end-Triassic, Early Jurassic, Jurassic/Cretaceous, Late Cretaceous, and end-Cretaceous extinctions) and global sea-level changes. The relationships between eustatic rises/falls and period-long eustatic trends are examined. Many eustatic events at the mass extinction intervals were not anomalous. Nonetheless, the majority of the considered mass extinctions coincided with either interruptions or changes in the ongoing eustatic trends. It cannot be excluded that such interruptions and changes could have facilitated or even triggered biodiversity losses in the marine realm. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-caf5cd17368745f192d68f1284cffb472023-11-20T20:59:32ZengMDPI AGLife2075-17292020-11-01101128110.3390/life10110281Paleozoic–Mesozoic Eustatic Changes and Mass Extinctions: New Insights from Event InterpretationDmitry A. Ruban0K.G. Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technologies and Management (the First Cossack University), Zemlyanoy Val Street 73, 109004 Moscow, RussiaRecent eustatic reconstructions allow for reconsidering the relationships between the fifteen Paleozoic–Mesozoic mass extinctions (mid-Cambrian, end-Ordovician, Llandovery/Wenlock, Late Devonian, Devonian/Carboniferous, mid-Carboniferous, end-Guadalupian, end-Permian, two mid-Triassic, end-Triassic, Early Jurassic, Jurassic/Cretaceous, Late Cretaceous, and end-Cretaceous extinctions) and global sea-level changes. The relationships between eustatic rises/falls and period-long eustatic trends are examined. Many eustatic events at the mass extinction intervals were not anomalous. Nonetheless, the majority of the considered mass extinctions coincided with either interruptions or changes in the ongoing eustatic trends. It cannot be excluded that such interruptions and changes could have facilitated or even triggered biodiversity losses in the marine realm.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/10/11/281biotic crisisglobal sea levellife evolution |
| spellingShingle | Dmitry A. Ruban Paleozoic–Mesozoic Eustatic Changes and Mass Extinctions: New Insights from Event Interpretation Life biotic crisis global sea level life evolution |
| title | Paleozoic–Mesozoic Eustatic Changes and Mass Extinctions: New Insights from Event Interpretation |
| title_full | Paleozoic–Mesozoic Eustatic Changes and Mass Extinctions: New Insights from Event Interpretation |
| title_fullStr | Paleozoic–Mesozoic Eustatic Changes and Mass Extinctions: New Insights from Event Interpretation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Paleozoic–Mesozoic Eustatic Changes and Mass Extinctions: New Insights from Event Interpretation |
| title_short | Paleozoic–Mesozoic Eustatic Changes and Mass Extinctions: New Insights from Event Interpretation |
| title_sort | paleozoic mesozoic eustatic changes and mass extinctions new insights from event interpretation |
| topic | biotic crisis global sea level life evolution |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/10/11/281 |
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