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Which organisms became extinct during the Hangenberg Event?
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Devonian Period
Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins during the early Devonian Period. Included in the paleogeographic reconstruction are the locations of the interval's subduction zones.
The Hangenberg Event, which occurred at the end of the Famennian Stage, resulted in the extinction of several distinct groups of organisms, including:
- Phacopid trilobites
- Several groups of goniatites
- The clymeniids, which were unusual Late Devonian coiled cephalopods12