Permo-Triassic biodiversity patterns could offer a window into our climate future
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - 11:44
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A new study by the University of Leeds and University of Oxford has examined spatial biodiversity patterns across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction event. (c. 252 million years ago). The Permo-Triassic mass extinction represents the most catastrophic event in the last 500 million years of evolutionary history and caused the loss of up 95% of species because of a cocktail of volcanic effects including extreme greenhouse warming.