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Looy picked up a spruce cone. Pollen from the trees around us might be preserved inside. She believes that the Permian extinction was caused by acid rain following a massive release of volcanic gases. She wants to compare tree pollen from a modern forest killed by acid rain with fossil pollen found in Permian rocks.

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extinct, as were 50% of the Genera and 20% of families. [1] [3]

The massive extinction of the Devonian is one of the five great extinctions that have occurred in Earth's history, along with the mass extinctions of the Ordovician-Silurian, the mass extinction of the Permian-Triassic, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction, and the Cretaceous extinction However, there are authors who consider that the extinctions of the Devonian - in particular the extinction at the Frasnian-Famenian limit - were not in fact mass extinctions, but a loss of biodiversity caused by rates of extinction. Very low speciation. [10] [Note
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