A negative carbon isotope anomaly associated with the earliest Lopingian (Late Permian) mass extinction

Kunio Kaiho; Zhong Qiang Chen; Tomoyuki Ohashi; Tetsuya Arinobu; Ken Sawada; Benjamin S. Cramer

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.04.013

A negative carbon isotope anomaly associated with the earliest Lopingian (Late Permian) mass extinction

Kunio Kaiho, Zhong Qiang Chen, Tomoyuki Ohashi, Tetsuya Arinobu, Ken Sawada, Benjamin S. Cramer

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Abstract

Palaeozoic life was severely affected in a pair of mass extinction events at the beginning (earliest Lopingian, 260 million years ago) and the end (251 million years ago) of the Late Permian. However, the biological and geochemical record of the earliest Lopingian crisis remains poorly constrained. We present analyses of strata in South China showing that a negative anomaly of stable carbon isotope ratios accompanied an abrupt extinction of marine faunas at the beginning of the Late Permian, similar to patterns observed at the end-Permian and the end-Cretaceous (65 million years ago) extinction events.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	172-180
Number of pages	9
Journal	Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Volume	223
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.04.013
Publication status	Published - 2005 Jul 25

Keywords

C-13/C-12
China
Mass extinctions
Permian

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Oceanography
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Earth-Surface Processes
Palaeontology

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A negative carbon isotope anomaly associated with the earliest Lopingian (Late Permian) mass extinction. / Kaiho, Kunio; Chen, Zhong Qiang; Ohashi, Tomoyuki; Arinobu, Tetsuya; Sawada, Ken; Cramer, Benjamin S.

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