The end of the Ediacara biota: Extinction, biotic replacement, or Cheshire Cat?

M Laflamme, SAF Darroch, SM Tweedt, KJ Peterson… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Ediacaran–Cambrian transition signals a drastic change in both diversity and
ecosystem construction. The Ediacara biota (consisting of various metazoan stem lineages …

Oceanic anoxic events, photic-zone euxinia, and controversy of sea-level fluctuations during the Middle-Late Devonian

P Kabanov, TE Hauck, SA Gouwy, SE Grasby… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper reviews global records of anoxic events of the Middle Devonian–earliest
Mississippian, as well as the possible triggers and controls of these events. These “anoxic …

[HTML][HTML] A volcanic scenario for the Frasnian–Famennian major biotic crisis and other Late Devonian global changes: more answers than questions?

G Racki - Global and Planetary Change, 2020 - Elsevier
Although the prime causation of the Late Devonian Frasnian–Famennian (F–F) mass
extinction remains conjectural, such destructive factors as the spread of anoxia and rapid …

Paleogeography and paleoenvironments of the Late Devonian Kellwasser event: A review of its sedimentological and geochemical expression

SK Carmichael, JA Waters, P Königshof… - Global and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Devonian (383-359 Ma) was a time of prolonged climate instability with
catastrophic perturbation of global marine ecosystems at the Frasnian-Famennian (FF) and …

Timing and pacing of the Late Devonian mass extinction event regulated by eccentricity and obliquity

D De Vleeschouwer, AC Da Silva, M Sinnesael… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The Late Devonian envelops one of Earth's big five mass extinction events at the
Frasnian–Famennian boundary (374 Ma). Environmental change across the extinction …

What controls the duration and intensity of ocean anoxic events in the Paleozoic and the Mesozoic?

T Reershemius, NJ Planavsky - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The sedimentological and geochemical expression of Mesozoic ocean anoxic events
(OAEs) in the geologic record is reasonably well-characterized and the causal mechanisms …

Supernova triggers for end-Devonian extinctions

BD Fields, AL Melott, J Ellis, AF Ertel, BJ Fry… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
The Late Devonian was a protracted period of low speciation resulting in biodiversity
decline, culminating in extinction events near the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary …

Quantifying ecological impacts of mass extinctions with network analysis of fossil communities

AD Muscente, A Prabhu, H Zhong, A Eleish… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
Mass extinctions documented by the fossil record provide critical benchmarks for assessing
changes through time in biodiversity and ecology. Efforts to compare biotic crises of the past …

Did climate changes trigger the Late Devonian Kellwasser Crisis? Evidence from a high-resolution conodont δ18OPO4 record from South China

C Huang, MM Joachimski, Y Gong - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
The impact of climate change on biodiversity has been the focus of studies on the
Phanerozoic biotic crises. However, it is still controversial whether climate change has …

The Late Devonian Frasnian–Famennian Event in South China—patterns and causes of extinctions, sea level changes, and isotope variations

X Ma, Y Gong, D Chen, G Racki, X Chen… - Palaeogeography …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Frasnian–Famennian (F–F) event may be recognized in various facies areas in
South China. In the pelagic cherty basin facies, both Lower and Upper Kellwasser events …