In a well-preserved sequence in east Greenland, the decline of animals is concentrated in a period 10,000 to 60,000 years long, with plants taking an additional several hundred thousand years to show the full impact of the event.
Nunha secuencia ben preservada no leste de Groenlandia, o declive dos animais está concentrada nun período de 10.000 a 60.000 anos de duración, e as plantas tardaron varios miles de anos máis en mostrar un completo impacto do evento.