Abrupt and Gradual Extinction Among Late Permian Land Vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa

Overview

Journal Science

Specialty Science

Date 2005 Jan 22

PMID 15661973

Citations 17

Authors

Peter D Ward

Jennifer Botha

Roger Buick

Michiel O de Kock

Douglas H Erwin

Geoffrey H Garrison

Joseph L Kirschvink

Roger Smith

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Abstract

The Karoo basin of South Africa exposes a succession of Upper Permian to Lower Triassic terrestrial strata containing abundant terrestrial vertebrate fossils. Paleomagnetic/magnetostratigraphic and carbon-isotope data allow sections to be correlated across the basin. With this stratigraphy, the vertebrate fossil data show a gradual extinction in the Upper Permian punctuated by an enhanced extinction pulse at the Permian-Triassic boundary interval, particularly among the dicynodont therapsids, coinciding with negative carbon-isotope anomalies.

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