Suppressed competitive exclusion enabled the proliferation of Permian/Triassic boundary microbialites by William J. Foster, Katrin Heindel, Sylvain Richoz, Jana Gliwa, Daniel J. Lehrmann, Aymon Baud, Tea Kolar‐Jurkovšek, Dunja Aljinović, Bogdan Jurkovšek, Dieter Korn, Rowan C. Martindale, Jörn Peckmann

“…The presence of both microbialites and metazoan associations were limited to oxygenated settings, suggesting that a factor other than anoxia resulted in a relaxation of ecological constraints following the mass extinction event. It is inferred that the end‐Permian mass extinction event decreased the diversity and abundance of metazoans to the point of significantly reducing competition, allowing photosynthesis‐based microbial mats to flourish in shallow water settings and resulting in the formation of widespread microbialites.…”
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Mid-Cenozoic climate change, extinction, and faunal turnover in Madagascar, and their bearing on the evolution of lemurs by Laurie R. Godfrey, Karen E. Samonds, Justin W. Baldwin, Michael R. Sutherland, Jason M. Kamilar, Kristen L. Allfisher

“…We compare the terrestrial vertebrate fauna of Madagascar in the Holocene to that of early Cenozoic continental Africa to shed light on the probability of a major mid-Cenozoic lemur extinction event, followed by an “adaptive radiation” or recovery. …”
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Divergence rates of subviral pathogens of angiosperms abruptly decreased at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary by Piotr Bajdek

“…It seems that the evolutionary history of viroids has been in part shaped by radiation and extinction events of angiosperms. Herein, for the first time I show the probable impact of a mass extinction event on the divergence rates of subviral pathogens, which are the simplest known “lifeforms”.…”
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The Challenges of Replicating Research on Endangered Species by Rachael C. Shaw, Alison L. Greggor, Joshua M. Plotnik

“…We are currently witnessing a mass extinction event. In this context, behavior and cognition research can play a vital role in our efforts to conserve biodiversity. …”
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A giant Late Triassic ichthyosaur from the UK and a reinterpretation of the Aust Cliff 'dinosaurian' bones. by Dean R Lomax, Paul De la Salle, Judy A Massare, Ramues Gallois

“…It documents that giant ichthyosaurs persisted well into the Rhaetian Stage, and close to the time of the Late Triassic extinction event. This specimen has prompted the reinterpretation of several large, roughly cylindrical bones from the latest Triassic (Rhaetian Stage) Westbury Mudstone Formation from Aust Cliff, Gloucestershire, UK. …”
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A refined modelling approach to assess the influence of sampling on palaeobiodiversity curves: new support for declining Cretaceous dinosaur richness. by Lloyd, G

“…Furthermore, there is new support for a long-term decline in their diversity leading up to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event. At present, use of this method with data that includes either Lagerstätten or 'Pull of the Recent' biases is inappropriate, although partial solutions are offered.…”

The Intensification of Prolonged Cooling Climate-Exacerbated Late Ordovician–Early Silurian Mass Extinction: A Case Study from the Wufeng Formation–Longmaxi Formation in the Sichua... by Zhibo Zhang, Yinghai Guo, Hengye Wei, Chunlin Zeng, Jiaming Zhang, Difei Zhao

“…This corresponds to two pulse-type biological extinction events and represents an interval of increasing organic carbon burial. …”
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The Disaster Taxon Lystrosaurus: A Paleontological Myth by Sean P. Modesto

“…The term was expanded in the 1990s to describe (as “disaster taxa”) opportunistic taxa that dominated their biota numerically (“bloomed”) during the survival interval of a mass extinction event. The Permo-Triassic tetrapod genus Lystrosaurus has been cited regularly as a “disaster taxon” of the end-Permian mass extinction. …”
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The oldest lagonomegopid spider, a new species in Lower Cretaceous amber from Álava, Spain by D. PENNEY

“…In contrast to other spider families, it may be that the end-Cretaceous extinction event did have an effect on this strictly fossil family.…”
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A phytosaur osteoderm from a late middle Rhaetian bone bed of Bonenburg (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany): Implications for phytosaur extinction by P. Martin Sander, Paul W. Wellnitz

“…Phytosaurs survived in Europe to at least the late middle Rhaetian, probably falling victim to the end-Triassic extinction event about two million years later.…”
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Are Ashes All That Is Left? Grace Jantzen’s Aesthetics and the Beauty of Biodiversity by Dorothy C. Dean

“…As the climate crisis continues to worsen and it becomes apparent that the earth faces its sixth mass extinction event, it is more important than ever to find an alternative to the disordered thinking that prevents meaningful environmental reform in nations of the Global North with large carbon footprints such as the United States. …”
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<em>PARVULARUGOGLOBIGERINA EUGUBINA</em> TYPE-SAMPLE AT CCESELLI (ITALY): PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGE AND LOWERMOST DANIAN BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS by IGNACIO ARENILLAS, JOSE' A. ARZ

“…Of the 21 morphospecies identified in Ceselli 3, 14 are early Paleocene species and 7 are possible Cretaceous survivors of the K/P boundary extinction event. To clarify the lowermost Danian bizonation, it was necessary to taxonomically revise Pv. eugubina and Pv. longiapertura, which have both been identified in this sample. …”
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Milankovitch-scale palynological turnover across the Triassic-Jurassic transition at St. Audrie's Bay, SW UK by Bonis, N, Ruhl, M, Kürschner, WM

“…There is no compelling evidence of a global end-Triassic spore spike that, by analogy with the K-T boundary fern spike, could be related to a catastrophic mass extinction event. Climate change is a more plausible mechanism to explain the increased amount of spores. © 2010 Geological Society of London.…”

FISH OTOLITHS FROM THE LATE MAASTRICHTIAN KEMP CLAY (TEXAS, USA) AND THE EARLY DANIAN CLAYTON FORMATION (ARKANSAS, USA) AND AN ASSESSMENT OF EXTINCTION AND SURVIVAL OF TELEOST LINE... by WERNER SCHWARZHANS, GARY L. STRINGER

“…The Kemp Clay is unusually rich in taxa that survived the end-Cretaceous extinction event and are still present in the Danian of the Clayton Formation, or, as the case may be, in the Danian and Selandian of the boreal northern European community known from Denmark. …”
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A “Mammalian-like” Pycnodont Fish: Independent Acquisition of Thecodont Implantation, True Vertical Replacement, and Carnassial Dentitions in Carnivorous Mammals and a Peculiar Gro... by Kumiko Matsui, Yuri Kimura

“…However, we discovered that an extinct fish taxon, <i>Serrasalmimus secans</i>, showed the same innovation in the lineage Serrasalmimidae, which survived the end Cretaceous mass extinction event. The carnassial teeth are known in both mammals and pycnodont fish, but these teeth do not share the same tissues or developmental processes. …”
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Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin of the dinosaur extinction by Amir Siraj, Abraham Loeb

“…Abstract The origin of the Chicxulub impactor, which is attributed as the cause of the K/T mass extinction event, is an unsolved puzzle. The background impact rates of main-belt asteroids and long-period comets have been previously dismissed as being too low to explain the Chicxulub impact event. …”
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The latest succession of dinosaur tracksites in Europe: Hadrosaur ichnology, track production and palaeoenvironments. by Bernat Vila, Oriol Oms, Víctor Fondevilla, Rodrigo Gaete, Angel Galobart, Violeta Riera, José Ignacio Canudo

“…A comprehensive review and study of the rich dinosaur track record of the Tremp Formation in the southern Pyrenees of Spain (Southwestern Europe) shows a unique succession of footprint localities prior to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event. A description of some 30 new tracksites and data on sedimentary environments, track occurrence and preservation, ichnology and chronostratigraphy are provided. …”
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Effects of environmental factors on Tigriopus fulvus, Fischer 1860, a Mediterranean harpacticoid copepod by Guido Bonello, Cristiano Angelini, Luigi Pane

“…During the three pools (A, B, C) monitoring, the maximum copepod density recorded was 1456 Ind/l (September 2014, Pool C), alongside first records of extinction event for Tigriopus fulvus.…”
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Plant controls on Late Quaternary whole ecosystem structure and function by Jeffers, ES, Whitehouse, NJ, Lister, A, Plunkett, G, Barratt, P, Smyth, E, Lamb, P, Dee, MD, Brooks, SJ, Willis, KJ, Froyd, CA, Watson, JE, Bonsall, MB

“…We assessed the extent to which mega-herbivore species controlled plant community composition and nutrient cycling, relative to other factors during and after the Late Quaternary extinction event in Britain and Ireland, when two-thirds of the region’s mega-herbivore species went extinct. …”

A carbon-isotope perturbation at the Pliensbachian-Toarcian boundary: evidence from the Lias Group, NE England by Littler, K, Hesselbo, S, Jenkyns, H

“…The isotopic excursion is of interest when considering the genesis and development of the later Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE), as well as the second-order global extinction event that spans the stage boundary. Furthermore, the isotope excursion potentially provides a chemostratigraphic marker for recognition of the stage boundary, which is currently achieved on the basis of different ammonite faunas in the NW European and Tethyan realms. …”