Exstinctio maior
Exstinctio maior specierum viventium, casus rarus in palaeontologia, e variis causis orta esse censetur, inter quas calefactione globali, vulcanismo, illisione meteoritae magnae. Animalium marinorum quinque exstinctiones maiores enumerantur:
 Ordovicia Siluria
 Devonia superior seu Frasnia-Famennia
 Permia Triassica
 Triassica Iurassica 
 Cretacea Palaeogenica

Bibliographia 
 Borja Cascales-Miñana, Christopher J. Cleal, "The plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction events" in Terra nova vol. 26 (2014) pp. 195–200
 Patrick Greenfield, "UN draft plan sets 2030 target to avert Earth's sixth mass extinction" in The Guardian (13 Ianuarii 2020)
 Ch. Koeberl, "Massensterben und Impaktereignisse in der Erdgeschichte: Ein kurzer Überblick" in Denisia vol. 20 (2007) pp. 97–114
 Katja M. Meyer, Lee R. Kump, "Oceanic Euxinia in Earth History: Causes and Consequences" in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences vol. 36 (2008) pp. 251-288

Arma nuclearia
Exstinctio humana

Nexus externi 
 Sepkoski's Online Genus Database

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