Sentence examples for mass extinction interval from inspiring English sources

Based on these chronostratigraphic constraints, the end-Triassic mass extinction interval in the Inuyama bedded chert can be estimated as 201.36 ± 0.20 Ma.

Across the end-Triassic mass extinction interval, radiolarian fauna shows a similar turnover pattern between the pelagic bedded chert sequence in the Inuyama area and the shallow marine sequence in the Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada (Carter and Hori, 2005).

U-Pb age of 201.36 ± 0.13 Ma was measured at the horizon between the end-Triassic mass extinction interval and the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in the Pucara section (Schoene et al., 2010).

The end-Triassic mass extinction interval in the studied section is well constrained within the interval of a chert bed number 796 based on the radiolarian faunal turnover from the Globolaxtorum tozeri zone to Pantanellium tanuense zone with the last occurrence of conodont Misikella posthernsteini (Hori, 1992; Carter and Hori, 2005).

Jablonski showed, however, that widespread lineages (genera, or collections of closely related species) did have a survival advantage during the mass extinction interval, suggesting that different types of selection processes operate during mass extinction events relative to those that are important during normal times (for additional details, see Jablonski 1986 , 1987.

This age uncertainties arose from the U-Pb age error and the duration of the end-Triassic mass extinction interval of the shallow marine section in UK, as described above (Schoene et al., 2010; Ruhl et al., 2010; Ogg and Hinnov, 2012).

Paleontological studies (see above) have demonstrated that greater geographic range (as often exhibited by planktotrophic species) frequently confers a survival advantage (as measured by stratigraphic longevity) to species over long time spans, but not necessarily during mass extinction intervals.

The team compiled a list of more than 1000 species of vertebrates that lived in the 96-million-year interval straddling the mass extinction.

This result support those of genus-level analyses by McGhee (1996) and Bambach et al. (2004) and further reinforces the interpretation of the Late Devonian interval as a biodiversity crisis rather than a mass extinction event.

There is evidence that there was an interval of about from the impact to the mass extinction.

The Late Devonian (Frasnian-Famennian) interval is traditionally considered to rank among the "Big Five" mass extinction events in Phanerozoic history with peak diversity decline in the late Frasnian Stage [1] [3].