Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Permian biospheric events in Northeast Asia

  • Published:
Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

An analysis of the dynamics of diversity of bivalve species in Northeast Asia in the Permian period allowed us to reveal a number of events when it significantly increased or decreased. Four major mass extinction events were established for bivalves: at the end of the Early Permian, in the Early Capitanian age, at the the Capitanian-Wuchiapingian boundary and at the end of the Late Permian. Along with extinction events, five events of taxonomic radiation/innovation were distinguished: Early Asselian, Middle Kungurian, Early Roadian, Late Wordian, and Early Changhsingian. Revealing of these biotic events has been confirmed by the dynamics of biodiversity in other major groups of Permian fauna (foraminifers, brachiopods, ammonoids). Moreover, they are evidenced in different basins by changes in the character of sedimentation, isotope parameters, eustatic variations and other environmental factors. Most of the events can be traced far beyond Northeast Asia. Their manifestation is associated with general reasons (variations in endogenous regime of the Earth and associated stress effects on the biota). According to this, results of studying these events can be used for global correlations.

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

  • Budnikov, I.V., Grinenko, V.S., Klets, A.G., et al., The Model of Formation of Upper Paleozoic Deposits of the Eastern Area of the Siberian Platform and Its Folded Framework, Otechestvennaya Geologiya, 2003, no. 6, pp. 86–92.

  • Biakov, A.S. and Ganelin, V.G., Early Tatarian (Gizhigian) Biotic Crisis in North-East Asia and Its Possible Causes, in Biostratigrafiya i ekologo-biosfernye aspekty paleontologii. Tez. dokl. XLIV sessii Paleontol. Ob-va (Biostratigraphy and Ecological-Biospheric Aspects of Paleontology. Proc. XLIV Session Paleontol. Society), St. Petersburg, 1998, pp. 17–18.

  • Biakov, A.S. and Vedernikov, I.L., Evidences of Anoxia at the Permian-Traissic Boundary in Deep-Water Facies in North-East Asia, Dokl. Akad. Nauk, 2007, vol. 417, no. 5, pp. 654–656.

    Google Scholar 

  • Biakov, A.S., Permian Bivalve Mollusks in North-East Asia: Zonal Stratigraphy, Event Correlation, Paleogeography, Doctoral (Geol.) Dissertation, St. Petersburg: VSEGEI, 2008.

    Google Scholar 

  • Biakov, A.S., Vedernikov, I.L., and Akinin, V.V., Permian Diamictites of North-East Asia and Their Probable Origin, Vestnik SVNTs DVO RAN, 2010, no. 1, pp. 14–24.

  • Chuvashov, B.I., Kungurian Stage of the Permian (Problems of Recognition and Correlation), Stratigr. Geol. Korrelyatsiya, 1997, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 10–28. [Stratigr. Geol. Correlation (The Kungurian Stage of the Permian. System: Problems of Recognition and Correlation), 1997, vol. 5, pp. 212—230].

    Google Scholar 

  • Erwin, H., The Permo-Triassic Extinction, Nature, 1994, vol. 367, pp. 231–236.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ganelin, V.G., Biakov, A.S., and Karavaeva, N.I., Regional Stratigraphic Scheme of North-East Russia, in Geodinamika, magmatizm i minerageniya kontinental’nykh okrain severa Patsifiki. Materialy Vseross. soveshch., posvyashchennogo 90-letiyu akad. N.A. Shilo. T. 1 (Geodynamics, Magmatism, and Minerageny of Continetal Margins of Northern Pacific. Proc. All-Rus. Conf.), Magadan: SVKNII DVO RAN, 2003, vol. 1, pp. 125–131.

    Google Scholar 

  • Golubev, V.K., Upper Permian Biostratigraphy of European Russia Based on Terrestrial Vertebrate Species from Permian Sediments in Proc. Int. Symp. Upper Permian Stratotypes of Povolzhie, Moscow, 1999, pp. 228–240.

  • International Permian Time Scale, Permophiles, 2010, Iss. 55, p. 33.

  • Isozaki, Y., Kawahata, H., and Ota, A., A Unique Carbon Isotope Record across the Guadalupian-Lopingian (Middle-Upper Permian) Boundary in Mid-Oceanic Paleo-Atoll Carbonates: the High-Productivity “Kamura Event” and Its Collapse in Panthalassa, Global and Planetary Change, 2007, vol. 55, pp. 21–38.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Isozaki, Y., Illawarra Reversal: The Fingerprint of a Superplume that Triggered Pangean Breakup and the End-Guadalupian (Permian) Mass Extinction, Gondwana Res., 2009, vol. 15, pp. 421–432.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Karavaeva, N.I. and Nestell, G.P., Permian Foraminifers of the Omolon Massif, Northeastern Siberia, Russia, Micropaleontol., 2007, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 161–211.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kashik, D.S., Ganelin, V.G., Karavaeva, N.I., et al., Opornyi razrez permi Omolonskogo massiva (Reference Sequence of the Permian of the Omolon Massif), Leningrad: Nauka, 1990.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kato, Y., Nakao, K., and Isozaki, Y., Geochemistry of Late Permian to Early Triassic Pelagic Cherts from Southwest Japan: Implications for an Oceanic Redox Change, Chem. Geol., 2002, vol. 182, pp. 15–34.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Klets, A.G., Verkhnii paleozoi okrainnykh morei Angaridy (Upper Paleozoic of Marginal Seas of Angaride), Novosibirsk: Geo, 2005.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kolesov, E.V., Magnitostratigrafiya paleozoya Severo-Vostoka Rossii (Magnetostratigraphy of the Paleozoic of NorthEast Russia), Magadan: SVKNII DVO RAN, 2010.

    Google Scholar 

  • Korte, K., Jasper, T., Kozur, H.W., and Veizer, J., 18O and 13C of Permian Brachiopods: a Record of Seawater Evolution and Continental Glaciation, Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol, 2005, no. 224, pp. 333–351.

  • Kotlyar, G.V., The Middle Tatarian Event, in Ispol’zovanie sobytiino-stratigraficheskikh urovnei dlya mezhregional’noi korrelyatsii fanerozoya Rossii (Application of Event-Stratigraphic Levels for Interregional Correlation of the Phanerozoic in Russia), St. Petersburg: VSEGEI, 2000, pp. 53–55.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kotlyar, G.V., Kossovaya, O.L., and Zhuravlev, A.V., Interregional Correlation of Major Event-Levels in the Permian, Tikhookean. Geol., 2004, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 25–42.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kutygin, R.V., Habitats of Permian Ammonoids in the Verkhoyansk Basin, Otechestvennaya Geologiya, 2004, no. 5, p. 7580.

  • Leonova, T.B., About Stages of Development and Biogeography of Permian Ammonoids, Stratigr. Geol. Korrelyatsiya, 1999, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 53–65.

    Google Scholar 

  • Leven, E.Ya., Bogoslovskaya, M.F., Ganelin, V.G., et al., Rearrangement of Marine Biota in the Middle Early Permian, Stratigr. Geol. Korrelyatsiya, 1996, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 61–70.

    Google Scholar 

  • Leven, E.Ya., Fusulinids and the Permian Scale of Thetys, Stratigr. Geol. Korrelyatsiya, 2004, vol. 12, no. 2.

  • Molostovskii, E.A., Molostovskaya, I.I., Minikh, A.V., and Minikh, M.G., About Reconstruction of the General Stratigraphic Scale of Upper Permian, Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved., Geol. Razved., 2002, no. 1, pp. 8–20.

  • Naugolnykh, S.V., Ecological Catastrophe in the Permian Period?, Priroda (Moscow, Russ. Fed.), 1992, no. 4, pp. 64–66.

  • Racki, G. and Wignall, P.B., Late Permian Double-Phased Mass Extinction and Volcanism: An Oceanographic Perspective in Understanding Late Devonian and Permian-Triassic Biotic and Climatic Events: Towards an Integrated Approach. Eds. Over, D.J., Morrow, J.R., Wignall, P.B., Oxford: Elsevier, 2005.

    Google Scholar 

  • Retallack, G.J., Metzger, C.A., Greaver, T., et al., Middle-Late Permian Mass Extinction on Land, GSA Bull., 2006, vol. 118, nos. 11/12, pp. 1398–1411.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Riccardi, A.L., Arthur, M.A., and Kump, L.R., Sulfur Isotopic Evidence for Chemocline Upward Excursions During the End-Permian Mass Extinction, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 2006, vol. 70, pp. 5740–5752.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shen, S. and Shi, G.R., Paleobiogeographical Extinction Patterns of Permian Brachiopods in the Asian-Western Pacific Region, Paleobiology, 2002, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 449–463.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wignall, P.B. and Twitchett, R.J., Oceanic Anoxia and the End Permian Mass Extinction, Science, 1996, vol. 272, no. 5265, pp. 1155–1158.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wignall, P.B., Morante, R., and Newton, R., The Permo-Triassic Transition in Spitsbergen: δ130Corg Chemostratigraphy, Fe and S Geochemistry, Facies, Fauna and Trace Fossils, Geol. Mag., 1998, vol. 135, no. 1, pp. 47–62.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zakharov, Y.D., Biakov, A.S., Baud, A., and Kozur, H., Significance of Caucasian Sections for Working out Carbon-Isotope Standard for Upper Permian and Lower Triassic (Indian) and Their Correlation with the Permian of North-Eastern Russia, J. China University of Geosciences, 2005, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 141–151.

    Google Scholar 

  • Zakharov, Y.D., Popov, A.M., and Biakov, A.S., Late Permian to Middle Triassic Palaeogeographic Differentiation of Key Ammonoid Groups: Evidence from the Former USSR, Polar Res., 2008, vol. 27, Iss. 3, pp. 441–468.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhou, Z., Glenister, B.F., Furnish, W.M., and Spinosa, C., Multi-Episodal Extinction and Ecological Differentiation of Permian Ammonoids, Permophiles, 1996, Iss. 29, pp. 52–62.

  • Zhou, M.-F., Malpas, J., Song, X.-Y., and Robinson, P.T., A Temporal Link between the Emeishan Large Igneous Province (SW China) and the End-Guadalupian Mass Extinction, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2002, vol. 196, pp. 113–122.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya ul. 16, Magadan, 685000, Russia

    A. S. Biakov

Authors
  1. A. S. Biakov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to A. S. Biakov.

Additional information

Original Russian Text © A.S. Biakov, 2012, published in Stratigrafiya. Geologicheskaya Korrelyatsiya, 2012, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 88–100.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Biakov, A.S. Permian biospheric events in Northeast Asia. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 20, 199–210 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593812020025

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593812020025

Keywords

Search

Navigation