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The Late Devonian - Early Carboniferous paleobiogeographic pattern is characterized by the immigration-emigration events of Tethyan tropic-subtropic foraminiferal fauna which are believed to reflect the major climatic oscillations. A certain regularity of the outlined oscillations raises the question of the periodicity of the initial events. The extinctions at the Frasnian-Famennian and Devonian-Carboniferous boundary appear to be stepwise affecting preferentially tropic-subtropic fauna which is gradually replaced by the temperate one. They are thus in general similar to the Cretaceous-Tertiary or Eocene-Oligocene extinction.
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Kalvoda, J. (1990). Late Devonian — Early Carboniferous paleobiogeography of benthic Foraminifera and climatic oscillations. In: Kauffman, E.G., Walliser, O.H. (eds) Extinction Events in Earth History. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0011146
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