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Ostracod recovery in the aftermath of the Permian–Triassic crisis: Palaeozoic–Mesozoic turnover

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During the earliest Triassic, the neritic environments were completely devastated and the recolonization of biotopes was very slow. Besides some small foraminifera and bivalves, ostracods are among the few neritic organisms that were able to survive and/or to thrive in the inhospitable environments after the disaster events. But the Permian–Triassic boundary marks also a great change in the ostracod assemblages. The Palaeozoic ostracods left room for the “modern” fauna. New data on the Early Triassic neritic fauna in South China (Sichuan and Guangxi Provinces) and bibliographic synthesis on other areas yield a first description of the timing of this turnover. First “typically modern” forms appear already in the Late Permian. The Early Triassic (Griesbachian to Spathian) ostracod faunas display a mixture of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic taxa. Completion of the Palaeozoic–Mesozoic turnover could be located in the Middle Triassic (Anisian).

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This work was supported by the Swiss NSF project no. 200020-105090/1 (HB), by the PRA ST03-01 of AFCRST (Association Franco-Chinoise pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique) (S.C. and F.Q.) and ECLIPSE 2 Programme (CNRS-INSU) (S.C., S.K. and F.Q.).

We are most grateful to Dr. Avraham Honigstein (Geological Survey of Israel), Dr. Michael Schudack (University of Berlin, Germany) and the anonymous reviewer for their critical review and their help in the improvement of the manuscript. We are indebted to Renate Matzke-Karasz for her friendly work on this special volume.

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    S. Crasquin-Soleau

  2. Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, 8006, Zürich, Switzerland

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  3. Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK

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  4. University of GeoSciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430074, P.R. China

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Crasquin-Soleau, S., Galfetti, T., Bucher, H. et al. Ostracod recovery in the aftermath of the Permian–Triassic crisis: Palaeozoic–Mesozoic turnover. Hydrobiologia 585, 13–27 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-0625-6

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