The Triassic: The Great Dying

Mass extinction; This is a term that most don’t fully appreciate the severity of. Like many aspects in the time scale of our earth and solar system, it is difficult to comprehend its scale at the surface. A mass extinction is classified as a massive dying of animal species in a short geologic window. In the above analogy that would mean having anywhere from 70% to 90% of creature species die in a fraction of a second. Mass extinctions are driven by a compounding of events. For example, the extinction that defined the beginning of the Triassic was called quite literally: The Great Dying. During the Great dying an estimated 54% of all families were lost. Just to clarify A family is such a broad term, it is the first category that would separate