Recovery tempo and pattern of marine ecosystems after the end-Permian mass extinction
Recovery tempo and pattern of marine ecosystems after the end-Permian mass extinction
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二叠纪末大规模灭绝后海洋生态系统的恢复速度和格局
DOI:
10.1130/g32191.1
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发表时间:
2011-08-01
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影响因子:
5.8
通讯作者:
Wang, Yongbiao
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作者:
Song, Haijun;Wignall, Paul B.;Wang, Yongbiao
High-resolution sampling of more than 10,000 microfossils from seven Late Permian-Middle Triassic paleoequatorial sections in south China refutes claims for a 5 m.y. recovery delay after the end-Permian mass extinction. We show that level-bottom seafloor diversity began to recover in the early Smithian, little more than 1 m.y. after the mass extinction, while recovery of reef-building metazoans began 4 m.y. later, in the Anisian. A further mass extinction in the late Smithian, identified in the pelagic fossil record, is weakly manifest as a temporary pause in diversification among benthic communities. In the Early Triassic of south China, the offshore diversity increase began before then, in shallower settings. The recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction in south China was therefore significantly more rapid and environmentally more complex than hitherto known.