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Middle Siberian trappean volcanism is considered to have been one of the major causes of the fundamental biotic change at the Permian-Triassic boundary. Accumulation of tuffs dominated the initial stage of the volcanic plateau development (Exah time), while later (Khungturunian time), tuffs and lavas accumulated, and at the conclusive stage (Putoranian time) lavas prevailed. At the end of the eruptions the height of the plateau reached 1700 m. Over 200 species and 80 genera of plants, conchostracans, ostracodes, bivalves, fishes, gastropods are known from the Putoranian. This article contains the characterization of a Putoranian plateau biota for the interval between the conodont and ammonoid standards of the P-T boundary.
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Original Russian Text © G.N. Sadovnikov, 2015, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2015, No. 1, pp. 86–94.
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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. 49, 89–99 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030115010104
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