Guadalupian Epoch

geochronology
Also known as: Middle Permian Epoch

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Permian extinction

  • marine family diversity
    In Permian extinction: Marine invertebrates

    …the middle part of the Guadalupian Epoch (about 272.3 million to 259.8 million years ago) as a benchmark, extinction within marine invertebrate faunas significantly reduced the number of different genera by 12 to 70 percent by the beginning of the Capitanian Age some 266 million years ago. The diversity levels…

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