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Accelerated mass extinction in an isolated biota during Late Devonian climate changes [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The fossil record can illuminate factors that contribute to extinction risk during times of global environmental disturbance; for example, inferred thermal tolerance was an important predictor of extinction during several mass extinctions that ...
Jaleigh Q. Pier +4 more
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Timing and pacing of the Late Devonian mass extinction event regulated by eccentricity and obliquity [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 Understanding of Late Devonian mass extinction mechanisms is poor due to imprecise stratigraphies. Here, using cyclostratigraphic techniques, the authors present a global orbitally-calibrated chronology and reveal the key role of astronomically-forced ...
David De Vleeschouwer +7 more
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Niche conservatism and ecological change during the Late Devonian mass extinction. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2023 Studies of the fossil record can inform our understanding of not only the causes of mass extinctions, but also their effects on biodiversity, ecology and evolution. Here, we examine regional-scale ecological changes resulting from a Late Devonian mass extinction event using brachiopod fossil assemblages from the Appalachian Basin.
Brisson SK +4 more
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The expansion of land plants during the Late Devonian contributed to the marine mass extinction [PDF]
Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 The evolution and expansion of land plants brought about one of the most dramatic shifts in the history of the Earth system — the birth of modern soils — and likely stimulated massive changes in marine biogeochemistry and climate.
Matthew S. Smart +6 more
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High lineage survivorship across the end-Devonian Mass Extinction suggested by a remarkable new Late Devonian actinopterygian [PDF]
, 2021 AbstractA mass extinction at the end of the Devonian is thought to have had a major influence on the evolution of actinopterygians (ray-finned fishes), which comprise half of living vertebrates. This extinction appears to have acted as a bottleneck, paring the early diversity of the group to a handful of survivors.
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Land plant evolution and volcanism led to the Late Devonian mass extinction [PDF]
, 2022 Abstract The evolution of land plants in terrestrial environments brought about one of the most dramatic shifts in the history of the Earth system — the birth of modern soils — and likely stimulated massive changes in marine biogeochemistry and climate.
Matthew S. Smart +6 more
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Early sarcopterygian morphological disparity through the Devonian-Carboniferous crisis [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMajor morphological adaptations characterized the early evolutionary history of sarcopterygians during the Devonian (419–359 Ma) and the Carboniferous (359–299 Ma), punctuated by environmental changes and biodiversity crises.
Olivia Vanhaesebroucke +2 more
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Modelling the Late Devonian Climate: Implications for evolution and extinction
, 2021 The Devonian period (419.2 - 358.9 Ma) was characterised by a warm greenhouse climate which transitioned towards glaciation throughout the Late Devonian. This period in Earth’s history was punctuated by repeated environmental and biotic crises. A common feature accompanying these events was widespread ocean anoxia, typically recorded in the geological ...
Claudia Lilli Jones Mack
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Ostracods Late Devonian mass extinction: the Schmidt quarry parastratotype (Kellerwald, Germany) [PDF]
Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science, 1998 Abstract Sixty-eight ostracod species have been recognized (the benthonic one for the first time) close to the Frasnian/Famennian boundary in the Schmidt quarry parastratotype. In the Late Frasnian, ostracods belong to an assemblage of the Eifelian ecotype and to the Myodocopid ecotype.
Jean-Georges Casier, Francis Lethiers
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Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022 Many accounts of the early history of actinopterygians (ray-finned fishes) posit that the end-Devonian mass extinction had a major influence on their evolution. Existing phylogenies suggest this episode could have acted as a bottleneck, paring the early diversity of the group to a handful of survivors.
Sam Giles +4 more
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