How to use in-sentence of “extinction”:
+ Seed ferns survived the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in Tasmania.
+ The Palaeocene began and ended with an extinction event, each of quite a different character.
+ For a long time it was thought that the group died out at the end of the Jurassic, which was a minor extinction event.
+ The group first appears in the Triassic period, after 95% of Oceanmarine species had been wiped out by the P/Tr extinction event.
+ The period ended with the mass extinction of almost all the Ediacaran fauna.
+ The absence of dinosaur genusgenera from this time is because few fossils have been discovered, and almost certainly not because Europe contained few types of dinosaur—except, perhaps, immediately after the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event.
+ Another reason that led to their extinction was that, unfortunately, they liked to return in large flocks to places where some of them had just been killed.
Example sentences of “extinction”:
+ These radiations occurred after the great Permian–Triassic extinction event that ended the Palaeozoic era.
+ The end-Triassic had several extinction events which are not well understood.
+ These radiations occurred after the great Permian–Triassic extinction event that ended the Palaeozoic era.
+ The end-Triassic had several extinction events which are not well understood.
+ They became extinct at the K/T extinction event.
+ A series of extinction events occurred towards the end of the Devonian, including a major event at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary in the Late Devonian, about 364 mya.
+ The Ordovician ended with a series of extinction events that, together amount to the second greatest extinction of the Phanerozoic.
+ It has suffered from local extinction through habitat destruction and capture for the parrot trade, but locally it remains fairly common.
+ After an extinction event, many niches are left vacant.
+ Cuvier believed there was no evidence for the evolution of organic forms, but there was evidence for successive creations after catastrophic extinction events.
+ The only debate now is whether the main extinction mechanism was the asteroid impact or widespread flood volcanism from the Deccan Traps.
+ The event brought about the extinction of the pliosaurs, and most ichthyosaurs, and most lines of pterosaurs.
+ Other groups of birds became extinct in the K/T extinction event.
+ In the nineteenth century, they were hunted almost to extinction by whalers.
+ After a series of lesser events, the end-Ordovician extinction resulted in an estimated 84% species loss.
+ The therapsids were seriously affected by the P/Tr extinction event.
+ They are part of the List of extinction eventsmass extinction events towards the end of the Permian period.
+ That may explain the extinction of the smaller pterosaur species, though the lack of fossils from the forested areas makes it difficult to judge.
+ It is thought that the Chicxulub impact, which happened 66 million years ago, caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
+ The dire wolf became extinct during the Quaternary extinction event.
More in-sentence examples of “extinction”:
+ This is because all stages in evolution must be viable, else extinction occurs.
+ Mesonychids “Middle claws” were the first mammalian carnivores after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
+ Diversification and extinction in the history of life.
+ Doing so allows you to access the corresponding Template:Taxonomy/ page, where you can assign a different parent, rank, display text, link, references, extinction status, or “display always” value.
+ This proved a long-lasting adaptation, and the group as a whole has survived many changes in the seas, and several extinction events.
+ It was a large-scale mass extinction of animal and plant species.
+ The Ankylosauridae are a Family family of armoured dinosaurs which evolved 125 million years ago and became extinct 65 million years ago during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.
+ The archosaurs or their immediate ancestors survived the catastrophic Permian–Triassic extinction event.
+ For example, the boundary between the Cretaceous period and the Palaeogene period is defined by the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event.
+ It has been blamed for the extinction of the Brown Fish Owl.
+ The impact associated with the crater is Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction eventimplicated in causing the extinction of the dinosaurs.
+ Fossil tracks show that the dinosaur lineage appeared soon after the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
+ The Triassic began after the great extinction at the end of the Palaeozoic era, the Permian/Triassic extinction event.
+ The late Devonian extinction was one of five major extinction events in the history of the Earth.
+ This massive eruptive event spanned the Permian-Triassic boundary, about 250 million years ago, and is widely cited as a cause of the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
+ This included the PermianTriassic extinction event, though this may not be relevant to the concept of sea level.
+ Also known as galactic extinction when the object is in the Milky Way.
+ Conifers appear to be one of the taxa that benefited from the Permian–Triassic extinction event.
+ The first fossils occur in the Upper Triassic, and the group continues until the K/T extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous.
+ Trait remixing: The overall genetic structure of coevolving species continually changes through new mutations, genomic alterations, gene flow among populations, differential random genetic drift among populations, and extinction of local populations that differ in the combinations of coevolving traits they harbor.
+ At the end of this period they faced near extinction again, when only one genus survived.
+ Thirty-eight species are threatened with extinction as a result of human activities.
+ Introduction of the Eurasian black rat or the domestic cat would be likely to cause almost immediate extinction of the ground-dwelling Henderson crake and possibly other species.
+ The Lower Jurassic started after the end-Triassic extinction event at 201.3 million years ago.
+ It shared the fate of many other large mammals, whose extinction is attributed to hunting and climate change.
+ Several impact craters and massive volcanic activity, such as that in the Deccan Plateau#The Deccan TrapsDeccan Traps in India, have been dated to the approximate time of the extinction event.
+ The epoch began with the K/T extinction event, caused by a combination of a meteorite strike and a huge volcanic flood basalt eruption which produced the Deccan Plateau#The Deccan TrapsDeccan Traps in what is now India.
+ It is generally agreed that the Neornithes evolved in the Cretaceous and that the split between the Palaeognathae and Neognathae, and then the split between fowl and the other Neognathae, occurred before the K/T extinction event.
+ The Cretaceous–Palaeogene extinction event 66 million years ago killed off all the non-avian dinosaur lines.
+ They are the cause, or part of the cause, of several List of extinction eventsmass extinctions, especially the Permian–Triassic extinction event.
+ Cuvier had shown that extinction of species had definitely taken place.
+ Some scientists say that climate change alone caused the extinction of the megafauna.
+ They have caused the recent extinction of many marsupial species.
+ Most dinosaurs died out in the K/T extinction event, at the end of the Cretaceous.
+ Great extinction events happened at both the beginning and end of the Triassic period.
+ Mutual vendetta may develop into a vicious circle of further murderkillings, retaliation, counterattacks, and all-out warfare that can end in the mutual extinction of both families.
+ P/Tr extinction event.
+ The best supported theory is that the meteorite strike in the Yucatan was the main cause of the extinction at the end of the Mesozoic era.
+ The K/T extinction in 66 mya also marks the beginning of the Cenozoic era, the one we live in.
+ Only three genera survived the end-Jurassic extinction event: “Caypullisaurus”, “Maiaspondylus”, and “Platypterygius”.
+ The false gharial is threatened with extinction throughout most of its range.
+ Theories about the extinction of ice age megafauna are of two kinds.
+ Antler growth and extinction of Irish Elk.
+ The history of smallpox in Mexico is from Spain’s conquest of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century until the official declaration of the extinction of smallpox in 1951.
+ A 2007 US-Czech study decided that 298 Baptistina may be the biggest remnant of a 170km asteroid that was destroyed about 160 million years ago in an impact with a smaller body, making the Baptistina family of asteroids and that the Baptistina event may have created the eventual impact asteroid believed by many to have caused the K/T extinction event about 65 million years ago.
+ The reasons for their extinction are not known.
+ Recovery from the most profound mass extinction of all time.
+ The end Triassic extinction caused the extinction of most pseudosuchians.
+ This is because all stages in evolution must be viable, else extinction occurs.
+ Mesonychids "Middle claws" were the first mammalian carnivores after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
+ Diversification and extinction in the history of life.