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The extinctions of the calcareous foraminiferal fauna at the Frasnian-Famennian and Famennian-Tournaisian boundaries appear to be connected with more than one event in each case (“episodic gradualism”), 4 of them seeming to be most important — the Kellwasser and Crickites event in the first case and the Hangenberg and sulcata event in the second case. The cumulative nature of extinctions is in contradiction with impact theory. The Famennian is then marked by 2 radiations — in the marginifera and in the expansa Zones. Both extinctions and radiations are closely linked to global changes in carbonate sedimentation and they seem to be best explained by climatic fluctuations of the glacial/interglacial type which were accompanied by aridity/humidity oscillations.
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Kalvoda, J. (1986). Upper Frasnian and Lower Tournaisian events and evolution of calcareous foraminifera — close links to climatic changes. In: Walliser, O.H. (eds) Global Bio-Events. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0010209
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