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Generally mass extinctions weren't directly caused by the actions of one particular species, though…

Except that isn't necessarily true. Wasn't one of the first major extinction events caused by over-oxygenation of the environment?

1. Cyanobacteria aren’t one species and 2. on the whole, oxygenation didn’t work out so well for the anaerobic bacteria that caused it, did it?