A prolonged interval of elevated extinction spanning the Kellwasser event, around 372 million years ago near the Frasnian-Famennian boundary, and the Hangenberg event at the very end of the Devonian around 359 million years ago. Roughly 40 percent of marine species were lost, with reef-building organisms especially hard hit, amid widespread oceanic anoxia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Magnitude or ScaleAround 40 percent of marine species went extinct; on a finer scale, 57 percent of genera and at least 75 percent of species did not survive into the Carboniferous. 1 LocationGlobal, with the heaviest losses among tropical reef ecosystems. 1 Connections
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A mass extinction event which occurred around 372.15 million years ago, at the boundary between the Frasnian and Famennian ages of the Late Devonian period.
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A mass extinction event which occurred around 372.15 million years ago, at the boundary between the Frasnian and Famennian ages of the Late Devonian period.
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A mass extinction event which occurred around 372.15 million years ago, at the boundary between the Frasnian and Famennian ages of the Late Devonian period.
- Associated With: Devonian
- Associated With: Carboniferous
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The Late Devonian mass extinction, also known as the Kellwasser event, was a mass extinction event which occurred around 372.15 million years ago, at the boundary between the Frasnian and Famennian ages of the Late Devonian period.
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