Environmental crises at the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

J Dal Corso, H Song, S Callegaro, D Chu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The link between the Permian–Triassic mass extinction (252 million years ago) and the
emplacement of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province (STLIP) was first proposed in …

Hyperthermal-driven mass extinctions: killing models during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

MJ Benton - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many mass extinctions of life in the sea and on land have been attributed to geologically
rapid heating, and in the case of the Permian–Triassic and others, driven by large igneous …

Age and pattern of the southern high-latitude continental end-Permian extinction constrained by multiproxy analysis

CR Fielding, TD Frank, S McLoughlin, V Vajda… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Past studies of the end-Permian extinction (EPE), the largest biotic crisis of the Phanerozoic,
have not resolved the timing of events in southern high-latitudes. Here we use palynology …

Isotopic signatures of mercury contamination in latest Permian oceans

SE Grasby, W Shen, R Yin, JD Gleason… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Sedimentary records from the northwest margin of Pangea and the Tethys show
anomalously high Hg levels at the latest Permian extinction boundary. Background δ202Hg …

Evidence from South Africa for a protracted end-Permian extinction on land

PA Viglietti, RBJ Benson, RMH Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Earth's largest biotic crisis occurred during the Permo–Triassic Transition (PTT). On land,
this event witnessed a turnover from synapsid-to archosauromorph-dominated assemblages …

High-precision U-Pb CA-TIMS calibration of Middle Permian to Lower Triassic sequences, mass extinction and extreme climate-change in eastern Australian …

I Metcalfe, JL Crowley, RS Nicoll, M Schmitz - Gondwana Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Twenty-eight new high-precision Chemical Abrasion Isotope Dilution Thermal Ionisation
Mass Spectrometry U-Pb zircon dates for tuffs in the Sydney and Bowen Basins are …

Anatomy of a mass extinction: sedimentological and taphonomic evidence for drought-induced die-offs at the Permo-Triassic boundary in the main Karoo Basin, South …

RMH Smith, J Botha-Brink - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2014 - Elsevier
The southern part of the Karoo Basin of South Africa contains a near complete stratigraphic
record of the Permo-Triassic boundary (PTB). Isotope-and magneto-stratigraphy confirm that …

Exceptional vertebrate biotas from the Triassic of China, and the expansion of marine ecosystems after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction

MJ Benton, Q Zhang, S Hu, ZQ Chen, W Wen, J Liu… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Triassic was a time of turmoil, as life recovered from the most devastating of all mass
extinctions, the Permo-Triassic event 252 million years ago. The Triassic marine rock …

Are insects heading toward their first mass extinction? Distinguishing turnover from crises in their fossil record

SR Schachat, CC Labandeira - Annals of the Entomological …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Time and again, over hundreds of millions of years, environmental disturbances have
caused mass extinctions of animals ranging from reptiles to corals. The anthropogenic loss …

Refined Permian–Triassic floristic timeline reveals early collapse and delayed recovery of south polar terrestrial ecosystems

C Mays, V Vajda, TD Frank, CR Fielding… - GSA …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The collapse of late Permian (Lo**ian) Gondwanan floras, characterized by the extinction
of glossopterid gymnosperms, heralded the end of one of the most enduring and extensive …