Conodont biostratigraphy of a new Permo-Triassic boundary section at Wenbudangsang, north Tibet
Conodont biostratigraphy of a new Permo-Triassic boundary section at Wenbudangsang, north Tibet
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10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.06.016
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2014-10
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Guichun Wu;Zhansheng Ji;J. Trotter;Jian-xin Yao;Liqin Zhou
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Guichun Wu;Zhansheng Ji;J. Trotter;Jian-xin Yao;Liqin Zhou
The Wenbudangsang section is a newly discovered continuous succession of marine carbonates that straddles the Permian–Triassic boundary (PTB), extending from the late Permian to the earliest Triassic (Induan). The section is located in the Wenbudangsang area of Geji County, northern Tibet, and tectonically sits within the northern Gangdise Stratigraphic division. Conodonts are abundant throughout this section, except being comparatively rare and less diverse in the Permian strata below the distinctive PTB Clay Bed.The conodonts are mainly represented byHindeodus–IsarcicellaPa elements,NeogondolellaPa elements, and ramiform elements, with fewNeospathodusPa elements present at the top of the section. Two conodont zonal successions have thus been determined based onHindeodus–IsarcicellaandNeogondolellaspecies. TheHindeodus–Isarcicellasuccession includes the uppermost PermianHindeodus julfensisZone,Hindeodus praeparvusZone, and the lowermost TriassicHindeodus parvusZone,Isarcicella staescheiZone,Isarcicella isarcicaZone, andHindeodus postparvusZone. TheNeogondolellasuccession consists of the upper PermianNeogondolella changxingensis–Neogondolella deflecta–Neogondolella postwangiZone,Neogondolella yini–Neogondolella zhangiZone,Neogondolella meishanensisZone, theNeogondolella tayloraeZone that crosses the PTB, and the lowermost TriassicNeogondolella krystyniZone andNeogondolella prediscretan. sp. Zone. The top of the section is defined by theNeospathodus kummeliZone andNeospathodus cristagalliZone. Two new species,Hindeodus microdentatusn. sp. andN. prediscretan. sp., are established and described in this paper.The PTB conodont successions recognised in the new Wenbudangsang section have been closely correlated herein with other well-known PTB sections: the GSSP Meishan section of South China, sections in Abadeh in Iran, and sections at Spiti in India. Importantly, the conodont faunas from Wenbudangsang now provide an opportunity to effectively correlate the PTB hindeodid and gondolellid zonal schemes given the high abundance of both assemblages, which is unique to this section.