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Quaternary extinction event

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Also known as Pleistocene-Holocene extinction, Late Quaternary Extinctions, Quaternary Megafauna Extinction, LQE, QME

mass extinction event, around 10000 BCE, marking the end of the Pleistocene and the beginning of the Holocene, during which many megafauna species went extinct; hypothesized to be caused by human hunting and/or natural climate change

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Instance of
extinction event
Part of
Quaternary
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point in time
9750-00-00
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