Assertion: ordovician silurian extinction | /r/HasProperty | global extinction event
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text: Ordovician-Silurian extinction, global extinction event occurring during the Hirnantian Age (445.2 million to 443.8 million years ago) of the Ordovician Period and the subsequent Rhuddanian Age (443.8 million to 440.8 million years ago) of the Silurian Period that eliminated an estimated 85 percent of all Ordovician species.