An Asian Grande Coupure

Jean-Louis Hartenberger ()
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Jean-Louis Hartenberger: the Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution, Université de Montpellier II

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6691, 321-321

Abstract: 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.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/28501

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