List of extinction events

This is a list of extinction events, both mass and minor:[1]

"Big Five" major extinction events (see graphic)

Period or supereon  | Extinction  | Date  | Probable causes[2]

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Quaternary | Holocene extinction | c. 10,000 BC – Ongoing | Humans[3]
Quaternary extinction event | 640,000, 74,000, and
13,000 years ago | Unknown; may include climate changes, massive volcanic eruptions and Humans (largely by human overhunting)[4][5][6]
Neogene | Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary extinction | 2 Ma | Possible causes include a supernova[7][8] or the Eltanin impact[9][10]
Middle Miocene disruption | 14.5 Ma  | Climate change due to change of ocean circulation patterns. Milankovitch cycles may have also contributed[11]
Paleogene | Eocene–Oligocene extinction event | 33.9 Ma | Multiple causes including global cooling, polar glaciation, falling sea levels, and the Popigai impactor[12]
Cretaceous | Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event | 66 Ma  | Chicxulub impactor; the volcanism which resulted in the formation of the Deccan Traps may have contributed.[13]
Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event | 94 Ma | Most likely underwater volcanism associated with the Caribbean large igneous province, which would have caused global warming and acidic oceans[14]
Aptian extinction | 117 Ma | Unknown, but may be due to volcanism of the Rajmahal Traps[15]
Jurassic | End-Jurassic (Tithonian) | 145 Ma | No longer regarded as a major extinction but rather a series of lesser events due to bolide impacts, eruptions of flood basalts, climate change and disruptions to oceanic systems[16]
Pliensbachian-Toarcian extinction (Toarcian turnover) | 186-178 Ma | Formation of the Karoo-Ferrar Igneous Provinces[17]
Triassic | Triassic–Jurassic extinction event | 201 Ma  | Possible causes include gradual climate changes, volcanism from the Central Atlantic magmatic province[18] or an impactor[19]
Carnian Pluvial Event | 230 Ma | Wrangellia flood basalts,[20] or the uplift of the Cimmerian orogeny
Olenekian-Anisian boundary event  | 247 Ma  | Ocean acidification[21]
Smithian-Spathian boundary event | 249 Ma  | Late eruptions of the Siberian Traps
Griesbachian-Dienerian boundary-event  | 252  | Late eruptions of the Siberian Traps[22]
Permian | Permian–Triassic extinction event | 252 Ma  | Large igneous province (LIP) eruptions [23] from the Siberian Traps,[24] an impact event (the Wilkes Land Crater),[25] an Anoxic event,[26] an Ice age,[27] or other possible causes
End-Capitanian extinction event | 260 Ma | Volcanism from the Emeishan Traps,[28] resulting in global cooling and other effects
Olson's Extinction | 270 Ma  | Unknown.[29][30][31] Possibly a change in climate, but evidence for this is weak.[32] This event may actually be a slow decline over 20 Ma.[33]
Carboniferous | Carboniferous rainforest collapse | 305 Ma | Possibilities include a series of rapid changes in climate, or volcanism of the Skagerrak-Centered Large Igneous Province[34]
Serpukhovian extinction | ~ 325 Ma  | Onset of the Late Paleozoic icehouse
Devonian | Hangenberg event | 359 Ma  | Anoxia, possibly related to the Famennian glaciation or volcanic activity, Supernova[35]
Late Devonian extinction (Kellwasser event) | 372 Ma  | Viluy Traps[36][37][38] Woodleigh Impactor?[2]
Taghanic Event | ~384 Ma  | Anoxia
Kačák Event | ~388 Ma  | Anoxia
Silurian | Lau event | 420 Ma | Changes in sea level and chemistry?[39]
Mulde event | 424 Ma | Global drop in sea level?[40]
Ireviken event | 428 Ma | Deep-ocean anoxia;[41] Milankovitch cycles?[42]
Ordovician | Late Ordovician mass extinction | 445-444 Ma  | Global cooling and sea level drop, and/or global warming related to volcanism and anoxia[43]
Cambrian | Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event | 488 Ma | Kalkarindji Large Igneous Province?[44]
Dresbachian extinction event | 502 Ma |
End-Botomian extinction event | 517 Ma |
Precambrian | End-Ediacaran extinction | 542 Ma | Anoxic event[45]
Great Oxygenation Event | 2400 Ma | Rising oxygen levels in the atmosphere due to the development of photosynthesis as well as possible Snowball Earth event. (see: Huronian glaciation.)

Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic

Millions of years ago

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The blue graph shows the apparent percentage (not the absolute number) of marine animal genera becoming extinct during any given time interval. It does not represent all marine species, just those that are readily fossilized. The labels of the traditional "Big Five" extinction events and the more recently recognised Capitanian mass extinction event are clickable links; see Extinction event for more details. (source and image info)

## Timeline

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Extinction events

Minor events

↓End-Ediacaran?

↓Lau event

↓Toarcian turnover

↓Aptian

↓Cenomanian-Turonian

↓Middle Miocene

↓Rainforest collapse

↓Capitanian

↓Smithian-Spathian

↓Cambrian-Ordovician

↓Olson's

↓Ordovician-Silurian

↓Late Devonian

↓Permo-Triassic

↓Triassic–Jurassic

↓Cretaceous–Paleogene

↓Holocene

Major events

Ediacaran

Cambrian

Ordovician

Silurian

Devonian

Carboniferous

Permian

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

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Neogene

Quaternary

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Extinction

Phenomena|

* Background extinction rate
* Coextinction
* De-extinction
* Ecological extinction
* Extinct in the wild
* Functional extinction
* Genetic pollution
* Lazarus taxon
* Local extinction
* Pseudoextinction

Models|

* Extinction vortex

Causes|

* Climate variability and change
* Genetic erosion
* Invasive species
* Habitat destruction
* Human impact on the environment
* Muller's ratchet
* Mutational meltdown
* Overabundant species
* Overexploitation
* Overshoot
* Paradox of enrichment

Theories
and concepts|

* Extinction debt
* Extinction risk from climate change
* Extinction threshold
* Quasi-extinction
* Field of bullets
* Hypothetical species
* Latent extinction risk
* Living fossil

Extinction events|

| Major|

* Ordovician–Silurian
* Late Devonian
* Permian–Triassic
* Triassic–Jurassic
* Cretaceous–Paleogene
* Holocene
* Timeline

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Other|

* Great Oxidation
* End-Ediacaran
* End-Botomian
* Dresbachian
* Cambrian–Ordovician
* Ireviken
* Mulde
* Lau
* Carboniferous
* Olson's
* End-Capitanian
* Carnian Pluvial
* Toarcian
* End-Jurassic or Tithonian
* Aptian
* Cenomanian-Turonian
* Eocene–Oligocene
* Middle Miocene
* Pliocene–Pleistocene
* Quaternary

Extinct species|

* Lists of extinct species
* IUCN Red List extinct species

Organizations|

* International Union for Conservation of Nature
* IUCN Species Survival Commission
* Extinction Rebellion
* Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

See also|

* Anthropocene
* Decline in amphibian populations
* Decline in insect populations
* Endling
* Extinction symbol
* Human extinction
* The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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* Ocean acidification
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* winter
* Verneshot
* Water pollution
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Earth Overshoot Day|

* Overexploitation
* Overpopulation
* Human overpopulation

Biological|

| Extinction|

* Extinction event
* Holocene extinction
* Human extinction
* List of extinction events
* Genetic erosion
* Genetic pollution

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Others|

* Biodiversity loss
* Decline in amphibian populations
* Decline in insect populations
* Biotechnology risk
* Biological agent
* Biological warfare
* Bioterrorism
* Colony collapse disorder
* Defaunation
* Dysgenics
* Interplanetary contamination
* Pandemic
* Pollinator decline
* Overfishing

Astronomical|

* Big Crunch
* Big Rip
* Coronal mass ejection
* Cosmological phase transition
* Geomagnetic storm
* False vacuum decay
* Gamma-ray burst
* Heat death of the universe
* Proton decay
* Virtual black hole
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* Potentially hazardous object
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* winter
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* Third Temple
* Norse
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* Saoshyant

Others|

* 2011 end times prediction
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* Armageddon
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