Coevality of the sea-level fall and main mass extinction in the Permian-Triassic transition in Xiushui, Jiangxi Province, southern China  

作　　者：Ya-Sheng Wu Xiao-Hong Yuan Hong-Xia Jiang Li-Jing Liu 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources Research, CAS [2]Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences [3]Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina Huabei Oilfield Company

出　　处：《Journal of Palaeogeography》2014年第3期309-322,共14页古地理学报（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Scientific Foundation of China (Nos. 40472015 and 40802001);the State Key Laboratory of Modern Paleontology and Stratigraphy (No. 083113);the postdoctoral funds of China (No. 20070420523);the State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources (GPMR200701)

摘　　要：A continuous Permian-Triassic boundary （PTB） section has been found and studied for the first time in Xiushui, Jiangxi Province, South China. Evidence for a large sealevel fall has been found in the horizon of 0.8 m below the PTB, from the beginning of Hindeodus changxingensis zone （correlatable to Hindeodus typicalis Zone of the Meishan section）. Sedimentary record indicates that the sea level kept at Iowstand, or occasionally rose slowly during the whole Hindeodus parvus zone, except another substantial sea-level fall in early H. parvus zone. It began a quick rise from the beginning of Isarcicella staeschei zone, kept rising for the whole/, staeschei zone, and probably caused the stagnation of sea water. The first severe change in the biota, marked by the sudden disappearance of all steno- tropic organisms such as fusulinids and dasycladacians, happened at the same time as the first sea-level fall, and is regarded as the first and main episode of the end-Permian mass extinction in this area. A microbe-dominated biota followed the first extinction, and spanned the late H. changxingensis zone and the whole H. parvus zone. All the microbes and some other eurytropic organisms including gastropods and ostracods disappeared at the end of the H. parvus zone, and the following biota in the/. staeschei zone is very simple. The coevality of the main sea-level fall and the main extinction episode might be causal： both of them might be caused by a drastic climatic cooling.A continuous Permian-Triassic boundary （PTB） section has been found and studied for the first time in Xiushui, Jiangxi Province, South China. Evidence for a large sealevel fall has been found in the horizon of 0.8 m below the PTB, from the beginning of Hindeodus changxingensis zone （correlatable to Hindeodus typicalis Zone of the Meishan section）. Sedimentary record indicates that the sea level kept at Iowstand, or occasionally rose slowly during the whole Hindeodus parvus zone, except another substantial sea-level fall in early H. parvus zone. It began a quick rise from the beginning of Isarcicella staeschei zone, kept rising for the whole/, staeschei zone, and probably caused the stagnation of sea water. The first severe change in the biota, marked by the sudden disappearance of all steno- tropic organisms such as fusulinids and dasycladacians, happened at the same time as the first sea-level fall, and is regarded as the first and main episode of the end-Permian mass extinction in this area. A microbe-dominated biota followed the first extinction, and spanned the late H. changxingensis zone and the whole H. parvus zone. All the microbes and some other eurytropic organisms including gastropods and ostracods disappeared at the end of the H. parvus zone, and the following biota in the/. staeschei zone is very simple. The coevality of the main sea-level fall and the main extinction episode might be causal： both of them might be caused by a drastic climatic cooling.

关 键 词：sea-level fall mass extinction Permian-Triassic boundary END-PERMIAN climatic cooling South China 

分 类 号：Q911[天文地球—古生物学与地层学] P534[生物学—古生物学]