Earth’s First Mass Extinction Caused by Critters ?

[Oxytropidoceras]

Newly discovered fossils strengthen proposition that

world’s first mass extinction engineered by early animals

by David Salisbury, Vanderbuilt University, July 29, 2016,

http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/07/newly-discovered-fossils-strengthen-proposition-that-worlds-first-mass-extinction-engineered-by-early-animals/

Evidence that Earth’s first mass extinction was caused by

critters, not catastrophe by David Salisbury, Vanderbuilt University,

http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2015/09/evidence-that-earths-first-mass-extinction-was-caused-by-critters-not-catastrophe/

The paper is:

Darrocha, S. A. F., T. H. Boag, R. A. Racicot, S. Tweedt,

S. J. Mason, D. H. Erwin, and M. Laflamme, 2016, A mixed

Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin,

Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

vol. 459, pp. 198–208

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304812785_A_mixed_Ediacaran-metazoan_assemblage_from_the_Zaris_Sub-basin_Namibia

http://vanderbilt.academia.edu/SimonDarroch/Papers

Yours,

Paul H.

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Well, I guess we weren't the first...

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