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An Asian Grande Coupure

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  • Jean-Louis Hartenberger

    (the Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution, Université de Montpellier II)

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Roughly 55 million years ago the world underwent a climatic change from the warm temperatures of the Eocene to the cooler, more arid environment of the Oligocene. This Eocene/Oligocene boundary is associated with an extinction/origination event in Europe known as theGrande Coupure, whereby new immigrants from Asia replaced most of the old Eocene genera from Europe. But was such an extinction a worldwide event? One group has now looked at the fossil record from Central Asia, and has found that a similar extinction event —called the Mongolian remodelling by the authors —did indeed occur.

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  • Jean-Louis Hartenberger, 1998. "An Asian Grande Coupure," Nature, Nature, vol. 394(6691), pages 321-321, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:394:y:1998:i:6691:d:10.1038_28501
    DOI: 10.1038/28501
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