Number of mammals that have gone extinct during the sixth mass extinction that started in the Late Pleistocene
| Range | >300 mammal species |
|---|---|
| Organism | Biosphere |
| Reference | Davis M, Faurby S, Svenning JC. Mammal diversity will take millions of years to recover from the current biodiversity crisis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Oct 30 115(44):11262-11267. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1804906115 abstractPubMed ID30322924 |
| Comments | Abstract: "The incipient sixth mass extinction that started in the Late Pleistocene has already erased over 300 mammal species and, with them, more than 2.5 billion y of unique evolutionary history." |
| Entered by | Uri M |
| ID | 117255 |