English: Figure 2. Substage-by-substage pattern of extinction intensities of marine genera from Bambach’s (2006) analysis of Sepkoski’s compendium, showing the 18 local peaks Bambach defined as mass extinctions. The trajectory shows the pervasiveness of extinction inferred from Sepkoski’s data prior to attempts to compensate for the incompleteness of the fossil record (Figure 3). The higher temporal resolution used compared with Sepkoski’s analyses (Figure 1) suggests that the Capitanian extinction (peak 10) is distinct from the end-Permian extinction (peak 11, the Changhsingian), rather than just being the smearing back of the end-Permian extinction due to the Signor-Lipps effect as was initially thought.