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... During the mid-Cretaceous highstand of sea level, anoxic conditions extended upward into the deep portions of epicontinental seas, and it was during this interval that environmental perturbations produced pulses of biotic destruction that constitute the Cenomanian-Turonian mass extinction (see Kauffman, 7
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  • mass extinction
  • north atlantic
  • epicontinental sea
  • mass extinctions
  • surface water

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