Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Paleoecological characterization of the Middle Siberian Trappean plateau during the middle period of its formation (terminal Permian)

  • Published:
Paleontological Journal Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The formation of the Middle Siberian Traps has been considered one of the main causes for the change in the biota at the Permian-Triassic boundary. At the first stage of the formation of the volcanic plateau (Lebedevskian time), volcanism was dominated by tuffs; at the second stage (Khungtukunian time), by tuffs and lavas; and at the last stage (Putoranian time), by flood basalts. The paper presents a paleoecological characterization of the plateau at the middle (Khungtukunian) stage, immediately before the Permian-Triassic boundary (ammonoid standard). At the beginning of this stage the plateau reached an altitude of about 500 m above sea level, at the end of the stage it was higher than 800 m above sea level (Sadovnikov and Turlova, 2004). The Khungtukunian deposits have yielded more than 230 species, belonging to more than 70 genera of plants, conchostracans, ostracods, bivalves, and fishes.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Betekhtina, O.A., Ecological types of associations of nonmarine bivalves and thier significance for biostratigraphy, in Sreda i zhizn’ v geologicheskom proshlom: voprosy ekostratigrafii (Environment and Life in the Geological Past: Problems of Ecostratigraphy), Betekhtina, O.A. and Zhuravleva, I.T., Eds., Tr. Inst. Geol. Geofiz. Sib. Otd. Akad. Nauk SSSR, vol. 431, Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1979, pp. 173–178.

    Google Scholar 

  • Karasev, E.V. and Krassilov, V.A., Late Permian phylloclades of the new genus Permophyllocladus and problems of the evolutionary morphology of peltasperms, Paleontol. J., 2007, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 198–206.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kozur, H.W. and Weems, R.E., The biostratigraphic importance of conchostracans in the continental Triassic of the northern hemisphere, in The Triassic Timescale, Lucas, S.G., Ed., Geol. Soc. Lond. Spec. Publ., vol. 334, London: Geol. Soc. Lond., 2010. pp. 315–417.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kozur, H.W. and Weems, R.E., Detailed correlation and age of continental late Changhsingian and earliest Triassic beds: Implications for the role of the Siberian Trap in the Permian-Triassic biotic crisis, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 2011, vol. 308, no. 1, pp. 22–40.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Krassilov, V.A., Afonin, S.A., and Lozovsky, V.R., Floristic evidence of transitional Permian-Triassic deposits of the Volga-Dvina region, Permophiles, 1999, no. 34, pp. 12–14.

    Google Scholar 

  • Krassilov, V. and Karasev, E., Paleofloristic evidence of climate change near and beyond the Permian-Triassic boundary, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 2009, vol. 284, pp. 326–336.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kukhtinov, D.A., Lozovsky, V.R., Afonin, S.A., and Voronkova, E.A., Non-marine ostracods of the Permian-Triassic trasition from section of the East European platform, Bull. Soc. Geol. It. (Ital. J. Geosci.), 2008, vol. 127, no. 3, pp. 717–726.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lobanova, O.V., Malovetskaya, I.M., and Petrenko, V.M., Age of the lower part of the volcanic beds of the Tunguska basin on the basis of pelecypods, Uch. Zap. Nauchno-Issled. Inst. Geol. Arkt., Paleontol. Stratigr., 1969, no. 26, pp. 38–51.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lozovsky, V.R., Krassilov, V.A., Afonin, S.A., Ponomarenko, A.G., Shcherbakov, D.E., Aristov, D.S., Yaroshenko, O.P., Kukhtinov, D.A., Burov, B.V., Buslovich, A.L., and Morkovin, I.V., A new member in the Lower Triassic Vokhma Formation in the Moscow Syneclise, Byull. RMSK po tsentru i yugu Russkoi platformy, 2001a, no. 3, pp. 151–163.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lozovsky, V.R., Krassilov, V.A., Afonin, S.A., Burov, B.V., and Yaroshenko, O.P., Transitional Permian-Triassic deposits in European Russia and nonmarine correlations, Natura Bresciana. Ann. Mus. Civ. Sci. Nat. Monografia, 2001b, vol. 25, pp. 129–138.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lozovsky, V.R., The main problems of the stratigraphy of the Upper Permian of European Russia, in Dokl. Vseros. soveshch. “Struktura i status Vostochno-Evropeiskoi stratigraficheskoi shkaly permskoi sistemy, usovershenstvovaniya yarusnogo raschleneniya verkhnego otdela permskoi sistemy obshchei stratigraficheskoi shkaly”, Kazan’, 14–15 iyulya 2004 g. (Proc. of the All-Russia Conf. on “Structure and Status of the East European Stratigraphic Scale for the Permian System, Improved Stage Division of the Upper Permian Series of the Standard Stratigraphic Scale,” Kazan, Russia, July 14–15, 2004), Golubev, V.K., Ed., Kazan: Kazan. Gos. Univ., 2004, pp. 42–43.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lozovsky, V.R. and Kukhtinov, D.A., Vyaznikovian Stagethe youngest subdivision of Upper Permian in European Russia, Byull. Mosk. Ob-va Ispyt. Prir., Otd. Geol., 2007, vol. 82, no. 6, pp. 17–26.

    Google Scholar 

  • Malovetskaya, I.M., Novozhilov, N.I., and Sadovnikov, G.N., Stages in the development of flora and fresh-water fauna in the Tunguska basin in the Late Permian and Early Triassic, in Tr. XIII i XIV sessii Vses. paleontol. ob-va (Proc. of the 13th and 14th Sessions of the All-Russia Paleontol. Soc.), Leningrad: Vses. Geol. Inst., 1976, pp. 296–300.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mishina, E.M., Age of the volcanic strata of the Tunguska syneclise, Sov. Geol., 1973, no. 3, pp. 133–140.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mishina, E.M., The Permian and Triassic ostracods of the Nizhnyaya Tunguska River basin, Paleontol. Zh., 1980, no. 2, pp. 80–86.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mishina, E.M., The Late Permian ostracods of the Tunguska Syneclise, Paleontol. Zh., 1985, no. 1, pp. 79–85.

    Google Scholar 

  • Orlova, E.F., New data on the conchostracans Rohdendorfium and Bipemphigus from the volcanic Permian-Triassic sediments of the Tunguska syneclise, Paleontol. Zh., 1990, no. 1, pp. 66–75.

    Google Scholar 

  • Orlova, E.F., Permian-Triassic conchostracan faunas from the north of central Siberia, Stratigr. Geol. Correlation, 1999, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 465–472.

    Google Scholar 

  • Orlova, E.F. and Sadovnikov, G.N., Distribution and microsculpture of Limnadiidae, Falsiscidae, and Glyptoasmussiidae (Conchostraca) of the terminal Permian of Siberia, Paleontol. J., 2009, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 631–639.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Prynada, V.D., Iskopaemaya flora korvunchanskoi svity. Bassein reki Nizhnei Tunguski (Fossil Flora of the Korvunchan Formation: Nizhnyaya Tunguska River Basin), Vakhrameev, V.A., Ed., Moscow: Nauka, 1970.

  • Sadovnikov, G.N., Types and structure of ecozones, in Sb. pamyati chl.-kor. AN SSSR prof. V.A. Vakhrameeva (k 90-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya) (Collection of Papers in Commemoration of the 90th Birthday of Prof. V.A. Vakhrameev, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR), Moscow: GEOS, 2002, pp. 131–132.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N. and Turlova, M.A., Volcanism and biotic turnovers at the Permian-Triassic boundary (exemplified by the formation of a trappean plateau in Middle Siberia), in Rastitel’nyi mir v prostranstve i vremeni: Sb. nauch. rabot, posvyashch. 100-letiyu so dnya rozhd. akad. V.V. Mennera (1905–1989) (Plant World in Space and Time: Collection of Scientific Papers Dedicated to the 100th Birthday of Academician V.V. Menner (1905–1989)), Durante, M.V. and Ignat’ev, I.A., Eds., Moscow: GEOS, 2005, pp. 184–189.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N., Evolution of the paleoecosystem of a Permian volcanic plateau in Middle Siberia, in Mater. konf. “Sovremennye problemy biologicheskoi evolyutsii. K 100-letiyu Gosudarstvennogo Darvinovskogo muzeya, 17–20 sentyabrya 2007 g., Moskva” (Abstracts of the Conf. “Current Problems of Biological Evolution: 100th Anniversary of the State Darwin Museum, September 17–20, 2007, Moscow”), Rubtsov, A.S. and Samokhina, I.Yu., Eds., Moscow: Gos. Darvin. Muz., 2007, pp. 276–277.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N., On the Global Stratotype Section and Point of the Triassic base, Stratigr. Geol. Correlation, 2008, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 31–46.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N. and Kozlova, M.A., A contribution to the methods of semiquantative analysis of the nonmarine taphosystems of the Paleophytic and Mesophytic, in Mater. Vseross. soveshch. “200 let Otechestvennoi paleontologii. Moskva, 20–22 oktyabrya 2009 g.” (Proc. of the All-Russia Conf. “200 Years of National Paleontology, Moscow, October 20–22, 2009), Barskov, I.S. and Nazarova, V.M., Eds., Moscow: Paleontol. Inst. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2009a.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N. and Kozlova, M.A., The history of a trappean plateau in Middle Siberia and its biota, in Geologiya: istoriya, teoriya, praktika. Tez. dokl. Mezhdun. konf., posvyashch. 250-letiyu Gos. geol. muzeya im. V.I. Vernadskogo (Geology: History, Theory, and Practice: Abstracts of the Int. Conf. Dedicated to the 250th Anniversary of the V.I. Vernadsky State Geological Museum), Moscow: Gos. Geol. Muz., 2009b.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N., On quantitative and semiquantitative analysis of the Paleozoic-Mesozoic nonmarine paleoecosystems, Paleontol. J., 2011, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 105–111.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N., The age of the Siberian volcanites according to the Triassic non-marine GSSP, in Problemy regional’noi geologii Severnoi Evrazii. Mater. VIII nauchn. chtenii pamyati prof. M.V. Muratova (Problems of Regional Geology of Northern Eurasia: Proc. of the 8th Scientific Lectures in Commemoration of Prof.M.V. Muratov), Moscow: Ross. Gos. Geol.-Razved. Univ., 2012, pp. 79–81.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N., Nonmarine ecozones of the Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, and Jurassic of northern and central Eurasia, Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved., Ser. Geol. Razved., 2013, no. 6, pp. 91–94.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N., The Elatocladus linearis …Cornia vosini Ecozone of the Upper Permian, Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved., Ser. Geol. Razved., 2014a, no. 1, pp. 5–10.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N., The age of Siberian volcanites according to the Triassic nonmarine GSSP, Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved., Ser. Geol. Razved., 2014b, no. 2, pp. 75–78.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N., The Quadrocladus pachyphyllum … Echinolimnadia mattoxi Ecozone in the Permian-Triassic volcanites of Middle Siberia, Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved., Ser. Geol. Razved., 2014c, no. 3, pp. 5–11.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N., The structure of the Elatocladus linearis …Cornia vosini Ecozone of the Upper Permian in Middle Siberia, Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved., Ser. Geol. Razved., 2014d, no. 4, pp. 5–11.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N., The Quadrocladus pachyphyllum …Prilukiella tomiensis Ecozone of the Vyatkian Regional Stage of the Upper Permian, Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved., Ser. Geol. Razved., 2014e, no.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadovnikov, G.N., Paleoecological characterization of the Middle Siberian Trappean Plateau at the end of the period of Its formation (near the Permian-Triassic boundary), Paleontol. J., 2015, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 89–99.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sennikov, A.G. and Golubev, V.K., The Vyaznikian stage in the history of the Permian continental biota of eastern Europe, in Verkhnii paleozoi Rossii: stratigrafiya i paleogeografiya. Mater. Vseross. konf., posvyashchennoi pamyati prof. Vyacheslava Georgievicha Khalymbadzhi, Kazan, 25–27 sentyabrya 2007 g. (Upper Paleozoic of Russia: Stratigraphy and Paleogeography: Proc. of All-Russia Conf. in Memoriam of Prof. V.G. Khalymbadzhi, Kazan, September 25–27, 2007), Silant’ev, V.V. and Sungatullina, G.M., Eds., Kazan: Kazan. Gos. Univ., 2007, pp. 284–291.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Russian State Geological Prospecting University, ul. Miklukho-Maklaya 23a, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    G. N. Sadovnikov

Authors
  1. G. N. Sadovnikov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to G. N. Sadovnikov.

Additional information

Original Russian Text © G.N. Sadovnikov, 2015, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2015, No. 4, pp. 103–110.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Sadovnikov, G.N. Paleoecological characterization of the Middle Siberian Trappean plateau during the middle period of its formation (terminal Permian). Paleontol. J. 49, 438–447 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030115040152

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030115040152

Keywords

Search

Navigation