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Sequence of Permian Tetrapod Faunas of Eastern Europe and the Permian–Triassic Ecological Crisis

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Eastern Europe shows the most complete in the world continuous sequence of continental Permian and Triassic deposits, which allows the development of tetrapod faunas over more than 17 successive stages to be traced. The newly obtained data on transitional Vyazniki and Sundyr tetrapod faunas provide more complete characteristics of the Severodvinian (Late Guadalupian, pre-Lopingian) and Permian-Triassic ecological crises and the ways of replacement of the dominant vertebrate groups of Eastern Europe.

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Original Russian Text © A.G. Sennikov, V.K. Golubev, 2017, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2017, No. 6, pp. 30–41.

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Sennikov, A.G., Golubev, V.K. Sequence of Permian Tetrapod Faunas of Eastern Europe and the Permian–Triassic Ecological Crisis. Paleontol. J. 51, 600–611 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030117060077

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