neocatastrophistn.adj.

1937 Probl. Soviet Geol. 7 551 The author holds that a further revision of the theory of neocatastrophists is necessary.

1963 G. G. Simpson in C. C. Albritton Fabric of Geol. 32 Lippman, one of the neocatastrophists.., attacks uniformitarianism on the assumption that its now ‘orthodox’ form is absolute gradualism.

1987 L. R. Godfrey in N. Eldredge Nat. Hist. Reader in Evol. 217 One scientific debate in particular, that between the neocatastrophists (or punctuationalists) and the phyletic gradualists has fueled the fires of scientific creationism.

1995 Science 20 Jan. 334 Could a nearby supernova have caused a mass extinction of life on Earth 251 million years ago? Two neo-catastrophists, John Ellis..and David Schramm.., have dusted off this theory..and added some new numbers.

1973 D. V. Ager Nature of Stratigraphical Rec. ii. 19 It is both easy and tempting..to adopt a neocatastrophist attitude to the fossil record.

1982 Geologische Rundschau 71 381 The other, here called the Kober-Stille school, was largely non-uniformitarian (neocatastrophist) and believed in an orderly, regular Nature.

1996 Paleobiology 22 311/2 Many authors who favor neocatastrophist models of the K/T event often make the erroneous claim that those who favor more progressive extinction scenarios are denying the reality of a K/T mass extinction.