Seeking a paleontological signature for mass extinctions caused by flood basalt eruptions

Jonathan Payne, Stanford University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, Andrew M. Bush, Stanford University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Storrs Mansfield, CT, United States, Ellen T. Chang, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States, Noel A. Heim, Tufts University, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Medford, MA, United States, Matthew L. Knope, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Biology, Hilo, HI, United States and Sara B Pruss, Smith College, Geosciences, Northampton, MA, United States