Analysis of the stratigraphic records of 19,897 fossil genera indicates that most classes and orders show largely congruent rises and falls in extinction intensity throughout the Phanerozoic. Even an ecologically homogeneous sample of reef genera shows the same basic extinction profile. The most likely explanation for the congruence is that extinction is physically rather than biologically driven and that it is dominated by the effects of geographically widespread environmental perturbations influencing most habitats. Significant departures from the congruence are uncommon but important because they indicate physiological or habitat selectivity. The similarity of the extinction records of reef organisms and the marine biota as a whole confirms that reefs and other faunas are responding to the same history of environmental stress.

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化石记录中的一般灭绝模式

对 19,897 个化石属的地层记录的分析表明，大多数类别和目在整个显生宙的灭绝强度的上升和下降基本一致。即使是珊瑚礁属的生态同质样本也显示出相同的基本灭绝概况。对这种一致性最可能的解释是，灭绝是物理驱动的，而不是生物驱动的，并且主要是受地理上广泛的环境扰动影响大多数栖息地的影响。与一致性的显着偏离并不常见，但很重要，因为它们表明了生理或栖息地的选择性。珊瑚礁生物和整个海洋生物群的灭绝记录的相似性证实了珊瑚礁和其他动物群对相同的环境压力历史作出反应。