When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

By Michael Benton. 2003

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Exceptional vertebrate biotas from the Triassic of China, and the expansion of marine ecosystems after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction (2013, background): “The eruptions led to a series of consequences that have been identified worldwide by sedimentology and isotope geochemistry, including: atmospheric and oceanic warming by 5–10 °C, anoxia in the oceans, and acid rain leading to massive killing of forests and consequent stripping of soils on land (Wig”
The recovery of terrestrial vertebrate diversity in the South African Karoo Basin after the end-Permian extinction (2005, background): “A mass extinction is commonly deﬁned as having a 40% extinction rate (e.g., [4,13]) and from our data, it can be seen that nine out of 23 taxa do not cross the PTB, which is equivalent to 39%.”
Rapid vertebrate recuperation in the Karoo Basin of South Africa following the End-Permian extinction (2006, background): “…estimated to have occurred around 251.4 Mya (Bowring et al., 1998), has been well researched and is currently considered to be the most catastrophic mass extinction event in Earth’s history (Erwin, 1994; Retallack, 1995; Benton, 2003; Benton and Twitchett, 2003; Erwin et al., 2002; Erwin, 2003).”
Evidence of plant–insect interactions in the Upper Triassic Molteno Formation of South Africa (2004, background): “1985; Labandeira & Sepkoski 1993; Ross & Jarzembowski 1993) caused ecosystems to collapse (Twitchett et al. 2001; Benton 2003).”
The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs (2010, background): “This extinction was the most profound period of mass death in geological history and is estimated to have wiped out up to 75–95% of all species (Raup, 1979; Stanley and Yang, 1994; Benton, 2003; Erwin, 2006; Clapham et al., 2009).”
The palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental analysis of mass extinction events (2006, background): “The largest of these events are referred to as bmassQ extinction events, although this is a rather poorly defined term (see discussions in Hallam and Wignall, 1997; Benton, 2003).”
Global Catastrophic Risks (2008, background): “…interesting for two additional recently discovered reasons: (1) Super-volcanism creating Siberian basaltic traps almost certainly triggered the end-Permian mass extinction (251.4 ± 0.7 Myr before present), killing up to 96% of the terrestrial non-bacterial species (e.g., Benton, 2003; White, 2002).”