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Extinction before the snowball

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A widespread biotic turnover occurred around the time of the Sturtian glaciation. Microfossil analyses show that one regional extinction pre-dates the glacial advance, challenging the more severe models for glacial effects in the Neoproterozoic era.

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Figure 1: Microfossils from the Chuar Group.

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  1. Frank A. Corsetti is at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0740, USA. fcorsett@usc.edu,

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Corsetti, F. Extinction before the snowball. Nature Geosci 2, 386–387 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo533

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