Recent analyses of Sepkoski's genus-level compendium show that only three events form a
statistically separate class of high extinction intensities when only post-Early Ordovician …

The greatest loss of biodiversity in the history of animal life occurred at the end of the
Permian Period (∼ 252 million years ago). This biotic catastrophe coincided with an interval …

Size analysis of pyrite framboids has been undertaken on epicontinental Permian–Triassic
boundary sections throughout the world in order to evaluate the intensity and duration of …

Two Permian/Triassic boundary sections in central Japan provide a rare window into
environmental conditions within the Panthalassic Ocean, which encompassed more than …

Euxinic ocean conditions accompanied significant events in Earth history, including several
Phanerozoic biotic crises. By critically examining modern and ancient euxinic environments …

The Palaeozoic–Mesozoic transition is marked by distinct perturbations in the global carbon
cycle resulting in a prominent negative carbon-isotope excursion at the Permian–Triassic (P …

The latest Permian mass extinction (LPE), just prior to the Permian–Triassic boundary at~
252Ma, resulted in the disappearance of~ 90% of skeletonized marine taxa and the …

To better constrain the spatial and stratigraphic distribution of the depositional facies, a
synthesis of outcrop and subsurface data for the depositional system of the Upper Dalan …

Abstract The Yangtze Sea of the South China Craton experienced strong environmental
perturbations during the first~ 5-6 Myr of the Silurian. The Lower Silurian Lungmachi …

Abstract The Meishan section, South China is the Global Stratotype Section and Point
(GSSP) for the Permian–Triassic boundary (PTB), and is also well known for the best record …