Survivorship and recovery of early triassic tetrapods following the permo-triassic extinction event

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Of the five known mass extinction events, the Permo-Triassic extinction event is regarded unanimously as the most severe in Earth history. The consensus view has been that 70-90% of species became extinct 251 million years ago. Such estimates of high species mortality were based on ranks-based studies of low taxonomic resolution (family-level groups). My own investigations, using phylogenetic studies of higher resolution (species and genera), suggest that terrestrial vertebrates (tetrapods) experienced low extinction pressure during the Permo-Triassic extinction event.