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The Global Diversity Gradient

• Earth Viewer
• Virtual Library of Ecology, Biodiversity, and the Environment

Global Tectonics and Global Diversity

Plate tectonics and past geography

• World Seafloor Map.
• Map of the Ediacaran world, around 650 Ma.
• Map of the Late Cambrian world around 514 Ma
• Map of the Middle Ordovician world around 458 Ma
• Map of the Middle Silurian world around 425 Ma Map of the Early Devonian world around 390 Ma
• Map of the Early Carboniferous world
• Map of the Late Carboniferous world around 306 Ma
• Map of the Late Permian world around 255 Ma.
• Map of the Early Triassic world around 237 Ma
• Map of the Early Jurassic world around 195 Ma
• Map of the Late Jurassic world around 152 Ma
• Map of the Early Cretaceous world around 94 Ma
• Map of the Late Cretaceous world around 69 Ma
• Map of the Middle Eocene world around 50 Ma
• Map of the Middle Miocene world around 14 Ma

Jack Sepkoski

• Figure 6.1
• Figure 6.2
• Figure 6.5
• Figure 6.6
• Figure 6.7
• Figure 6.8
• Figure 6.9
• Figure 6.10

  Mass Extinctions: The Permo-Triassic (P-T) Extinction

  • Cool Map of the Late Permian (255 Ma)

  Extraterrestrial Impacts and Meteorite Craters

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