Was There A Sixth Prehistoric Mass Extinction?

[Oxytropidoceras]

'Missing' disaster led to all-time worst extinction

by Jeff Hecht, New Scientist, October 23, 2014

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429922.300-missing-disaster-led-to-alltime-worst-extinction.html

Have we missed a mass extinction? Extra catastrophic

event may have occurred 8 million years before the

‘Great Dying’, claim experts by Ellie Zolfgharifard,

Daily Mail, Oct. 23, 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2805194/Have-missed-mass-extinction-Extra-catastrophic-event-occurred-8-million-years-Great-Dying-claim-experts.html

The talk is:

Bond, D. P. G., Wignall, P. B., M. M. Joachimski,

and others, 2014, Catastrophic Middle Permian

Extinction and Extraordinary Recovery in High

Latitudes. Geological Society of America Abstracts

with Programs. vol. 46, no. 6, p.170,

https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014AM/webprogram/Paper241677.html

https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014AM/webprogram/Session35273.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited October 23, 2014 by Oxytropidoceras