Mass extinctions over the last 500 myr: an astronomical cause?

On the causes of mass extinctions

(2017) David P.G. Bond et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Biogeographic and bathymetric determinants of brachiopod extinction and survival during the Late Ordovician mass extinction

(2016) Seth Finnegan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Periodic impact cratering and extinction events over the last 260 million years

(2015) Michael R. Rampino et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Disc dark matter in the Galaxy and potential cycles of extraterrestrial impacts, mass extinctions and geological events

(2015) Michael R. Rampino   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Analysis of periodicity of extinction using the 2012 geological timescale

(2014) Adrian L. Melott et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Dark Matter as a Trigger for Periodic Comet Impacts

(2014) Lisa Randall et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

DO PERIODICITIES IN EXTINCTION—WITH POSSIBLE ASTRONOMICAL CONNECTIONS—SURVIVE A REVISION OF THE GEOLOGICAL TIMESCALE?

(2013) Adrian L. Melott et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

End Ordovician extinctions: A coincidence of causes

(2013) David A.T. Harper et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Cosmic rays and climate change over the past 1000 million years

(2013) T. Sloan et al.   NEW ASTRONOMY

An ∼60-Million-Year Periodicity Is Common to Marine 87Sr/86Sr, Fossil Biodiversity, and Large-Scale Sedimentation: What Does the Periodicity Reflect?

(2012) Adrian L. Melott et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Biodiversity tracks temperature over time

(2012) P. J. Mayhew et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Paleoecologic Megatrends in Marine Metazoa

(2011) Andrew M. Bush et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

clumpy: A code for γ-ray signals from dark matter structures

(2011) Aldée Charbonnier et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS

A 56million year rhythm in North American sedimentation during the Phanerozoic

(2011) Stephen R. Meyers et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A ubiquitous ∼62-Myr periodic fluctuation superimposed on general trends in fossil biodiversity. II. Evolutionary dynamics associated with periodic fluctuation in marine diversity

(2011) Adrian L. Melott et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Phanerozoic Earth System Evolution and Marine Biodiversity

(2011) B. Hannisdal et al.   SCIENCE

Atmospheric consequences of cosmic ray variability in the extragalactic shock model: 2. Revised ionization levels and their consequences

(2010) Adrian L. Melott et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A ubiquitous ∼62-Myr periodic fluctuation superimposed on general trends in fossil biodiversity. I. Documentation

(2010) Adrian L. Melott et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

(2010) P. Schulte et al.   SCIENCE

Gravity anomalies of the Antarctic lithosphere

(2010) John G. Weihaupt et al.   Lithosphere

Testing the proposed causal link between cosmic rays and cloud cover

(2008) T Sloan et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A long-term association between global temperature and biodiversity, origination and extinction in the fossil record

(2007) P. J Mayhew et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES