The Smithian/Spathian boundary (late Early Triassic): A review of ammonoid, conodont, and carbon-isotopic criteria

L Zhang, MJ Orchard, A Brayard, TJ Algeo, L Zhao… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The transition from the Smithian substage to the Spathian substage of the Olenekian stage
of the late Early Triassic was a critical time marked by a series of biological and …

High-resolution Early Triassic ammonoid biostratigraphy of South Tibet, China and implications for global correlations

X Dai, A Brayard, D Ware, S Jiang, M Li, F Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ammonoids are key fossil indexes for Triassic biochronology, as all Triassic stages and
substages were initially defined on ammonoid faunas. In recent decades, the temporal …

Orthoceratoid and coleoid cephalopods from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland with an updated taxonomic framework for Triassic Orthoceratoidea

A Pohle, C Klug - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2024 - Springer
Orthoconic cephalopods are subordinate, but persistent, widespread and regionally
abundant components of Triassic marine ecosystems. Here, we describe unpublished …

Exceptional fossil assemblages confirm the existence of complex Early Triassic ecosystems during the early Spathian

CPA Smith, T Laville, E Fara, G Escarguel, N Olivier… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The mass extinction characterizing the Permian/Triassic boundary (PTB;~ 252 Ma)
corresponds to a major faunal shift between the Palaeozoic and the Modern evolutionary …

Toward an understanding of cosmopolitanism in deep time: a case study of ammonoids from the middle Permian to the Middle Triassic

X Dai, H Song - Paleobiology, 2020 - cambridge.org
Cosmopolitanism occurred recurrently during the geologic past, especially after mass
extinctions, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly known. Three theoretical models …

North American Spathian (upper Olenekian, Lower Triassic) neogondolellin conodonts

MJ Orchard - Papers in Palaeontology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The taxonomy and biostratigraphy of poorly known neogondolellin conodonts from mostly
Spathian (upper Olenekian, Lower Triassic) strata are described from widespread localities …

Calibrating the late Smithian (Early Triassic) crisis: New insights from the Nanpanjiang Basin, South China

X Dai, Z Yuan, A Brayard, M Li, X Liu, E Jia, Y Du… - Global and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
The biotic recovery following the Permian/Triassic boundary mass extinction was influenced
by several secondary extinctions during the Early Triassic, of which the late Smithian crisis is …

The Paris Biota decapod (Arthropoda) fauna and the diversity of Triassic decapods

CPA Smith, S Charbonnier, JF Jenks… - Journal of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
We describe here the early Spathian (Early Triassic) Paris Biota decapod fauna from the
western USA basin. This fauna contains two taxa of Aegeridae (Dendobranchiata), namely …

New thylacocephalans from the Early Triassic Paris Biota (Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA)

S Charbonnier, A Brayard - Geobios, 2019 - Elsevier
Two new genera and species of thylacocephalans (Arthropoda, Thylacocephala), Parisicaris
triassica Charbonnier and Ligulacaris parisiana Charbonnier, are described from the early …

Upper Changhsingian to lower Anisian conodont biostratigraphy of the Datuguan section, Nanpanjiang Basin, South China

A Chen, Y Zhang, ML Golding, H Wu, J Liu - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Great Bank of Guizhou (GBG) of South China is an important area for the study
of Lower Triassic conodont biostratigraphy, but few studies have concerned the clastic facies …