Quaternary extinction event
Sign in to saveAlso 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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