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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), sometimes...
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  • and Late Ordovician Archived 2005-03-21 at the Wayback Machine The Late Ordovician GeoWhen Database - Late Ordovician The Ordovician Mass Extinction Archived...
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  • Thumbnail for Capitanian mass extinction event
    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Capitanian mass extinction event, also known...
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  • Thumbnail for Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event
    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event, also...
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  • glaciation process. The Late Ordovician glaciation is widely considered to be the leading cause of the Late Ordovician mass extinction, and it is the only...
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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction...
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    This is a list of extinction events, both mass and minor:   "Big Five" major extinction events (see graphic) Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic...
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    consisted of several extinction events in the Late Devonian Epoch, which collectively represent one of the five largest mass extinction events in the history...
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  • Thumbnail for Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
    Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of three-quarters of the...
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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event...
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    during the Ordovician as it did in the earlier Cambrian Period, although the end of the period was marked by the Ordovician–Silurian extinction events. Invertebrates...
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  • Thumbnail for Late Pleistocene extinctions
    The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw numerous extinctions of predominantly megafaunal (typically defined as having body masses over...
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    pointing directly towards the Earth, could cause a mass extinction event. The Late Ordovician mass extinction has been hypothesised by some researchers to have...
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  • Thumbnail for Permian–Triassic extinction event
    P–Tr) extinction event (PTME; also known as the Late Permian extinction event, the Latest Permian extinction event, the End-Permian extinction event,...
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    Holocene extinction is also known as the "sixth extinction", as it is possibly the sixth mass extinction event, after the Ordovician–Silurian extinction events...
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    Strophomenida (category Early Ordovician first appearances)
    abundant brachiopods during the Ordovician, but their diversity was strongly impacted at the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Survivors rediversified into...
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  • ACP Lomé Peace Accord, a Sierra Leone peace agreement LOME, Late Ordovician mass extinction Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, Spanish ambassador to the United States...
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  • Medea hypothesis (category Extinction events)
    carbon dioxide during the Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME), 445.2 million years ago to 443.8 million years ago...
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    N, Jackman CH (2004). "Did a gamma-ray burst initiate the late Ordovician mass extinction?" (PDF). International Journal of Astrobiology. 3 (1): 55–61...
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  • 15 May Geologists report that the earliest known mass extinction, the Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), 445 million years ago, may have been the...
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  • vertebrate, lives in the shadow of the invertebrates. The Late Ordovician mass extinction sees a massive global cooling that wipes out a majority of...
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  • Hirnantian (category Late Ordovician)
    major extinction event that took place during this time. In fact, the Hirnantian (also known as the End Ordovician and the Ordovician-Silurian) mass extinction...
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    E-OG Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Eocene–Oligocene extinction event, also...
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    younger Ordovician evolutionary radiation; stromatolite abundance also increased after the Late Ordovician mass extinction and Permian–Triassic extinction event...
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    Silurian (redirect from Late Silurian)
    palaeontologists as an extended recovery interval following the Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), which interrupted the cascading increase in biodiversity...
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    Human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact...
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  • Paleozoic (redirect from Late Palaeozoic)
    the short, but apparently severe, late Ordovician ice age. This cold spell caused the second-greatest mass extinction of the Phanerozoic Eon. Over time...
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  • extinctions. This is primarily the pre-human extinction rates during periods in between major extinction events. Currently there have been five mass extinctions...
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    Melott, A.; et al. (2004). "Did a gamma-ray burst initiate the late Ordovician mass extinction?". International Journal of Astrobiology. 3 (2): 55–61....
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    strike over 400 million years ago, possibly responsible for the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Prior to European colonisation, the Indigenous Australian...
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