Influence of the Frasnian-Famennian event on radiolarian faunas |
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Authors: | Yu-Jing Wang Hui Luo Jonathan C Aitchison |
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Institution: | 1.Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Nanjing,China;2.Department of Earth Sciences,University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong SAR,China |
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Abstract: | The impact of the Frasnian-Famennian biotic mass extinction event (F-F event) on radiolarian faunas is examined in 13 sections, which belong to two types of cherty basin in South China. No appreciable decrease in radiolarian biodiversity is observed across the F-F boundary. Indeed, radiolarian faunas flourished during the Famennian. The F-F event may not have had any dramatic effect on the radiolarian faunas in deep water and the disappearance of Famennian radiolarians in shallow water platform sections may simply be a result of sea level change rather than any biotic crisis. |
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