Forty years later: The status of the “Big Five” mass extinctions
Over 40 years ago, Raup and Sepkoski identified five episodes of elevated extinction in the marine fossil record that were thought to be statistically distinct, thus warranting the term the “Big Five” mass extinctions. Since then, the term has become part of standard vocabulary, especially with the...
Main Author: | Charles R. Marshall |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2023-01-01
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Series: | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction |
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Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2755095822000043/type/journal_article |
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