Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

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

  • Christopher R. Fielding,
  • Tracy D. Frank,
  • Stephen McLoughlin,
  • Vivi Vajda,
  • Chris Mays,
  • Allen P. Tevyaw,
  • Arne Winguth,
  • Cornelia Winguth,
  • Robert S. Nicoll,
  • Malcolm Bocking,
  • James L. Crowley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07934-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The continental record of the end Permian mass extinction is limited, especially from high paleolatitudes. Here, Fielding et al. report a multi-proxy Permo-Triassic record from Australia, resolving the timing of local terrestrial plant extinction and the relationship with environmental changes.