Lopingian, the Glossary
The Lopingian is the uppermost series/last epoch of the Permian.[1]
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58 relations: Amadeus William Grabau, Ammonoidea, Australia, Brachiopod, Campylocephalus, Capitanian mass extinction event, Cathaysia, Ceratitida, Changhsingian, Cimmeria (continent), Cisuralian, Clarkina, Conodont, Continental fragment, Dicynodon, Dicynodontia, Dinocephalia, Early Triassic, Eurypterid, Extinction, First appearance datum, Geologic time scale, Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point, Goniatite, Gorgonopsia, Guadalupian, Hindeodus, Historical Biology, Horseshoe crab, International Commission on Stratigraphy, Kathwaia, Laibin, Leping, Meishan, Milankovitch cycles, Nature Communications, Order (biology), Paleo-Tethys Ocean, Paleozoic, Pangaea, Paratirolites, Pareiasauria, Permian, Permian–Triassic extinction event, Predation, Prolecanitida, Scutosaurus, Series (stratigraphy), Smilesaurus, Species, ... Expand index (8 more) »
- Geological epochs
- Permian geochronology
Amadeus William Grabau
Amadeus William Grabau (January 9, 1870 – March 20, 1946) was an American geologist, teacher, stratigrapher, paleontologist, and author who worked in the United States and China.
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Ammonoidea
Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Brachiopod
Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs.
Campylocephalus
Campylocephalus is a genus of eurypterid, a group of extinct aquatic arthropods.
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Capitanian mass extinction event
The Capitanian mass extinction event, also known as the end-Guadalupian extinction event, the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary mass extinction, the pre-Lopingian crisis, or the Middle Permian extinction, was an extinction event that predated the end-Permian extinction event.
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Cathaysia
Cathaysia was a microcontinent or a group of terranes that rifted off Gondwana during the Late Paleozoic.
Ceratitida
Ceratitida is an order that contains almost all ammonoid cephalopod genera from the Triassic as well as ancestral forms from the Upper Permian, the exception being the phylloceratids which gave rise to the great diversity of post-Triassic ammonites.
Changhsingian
In the geologic time scale, the Changhsingian or Changxingian is the latest age or uppermost stage of the Permian. Lopingian and Changhsingian are Permian geochronology.
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Cimmeria (continent)
Cimmeria was an ancient continent, or, rather, a string of microcontinents or terranes, that rifted from Gondwana in the Southern Hemisphere and was accreted to Eurasia in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Cisuralian
The Cisuralian is the first series/epoch of the Permian. Lopingian and Cisuralian are geological epochs and Permian geochronology.
Clarkina
Clarkina is an extinct genus of conodonts.
Conodont
Conodonts (Greek kōnos, "cone", + odont, "tooth") are an extinct group of eel-looking agnathan (jawless) vertebrates, classified in the class Conodonta.
Continental fragment
Continental crustal fragments, partly synonymous with microcontinents, are pieces of continents that have broken off from main continental masses to form distinct islands that are often several hundred kilometers from their place of origin.
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Dicynodon
Dicynodon ("two dog-teeth") is a genus of dicynodont therapsid that flourished during the Upper Permian period.
Dicynodontia
Dicynodontia is an extinct clade of anomodonts, an extinct type of non-mammalian therapsid.
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Dinocephalia
Dinocephalians (terrible heads) are a clade of large-bodied early therapsids that flourished in the Early and Middle Permian between 279.5 and 260 million years ago (Ma), but became extinct during the Capitanian mass extinction event.
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Early Triassic
The Early Triassic is the first of three epochs of the Triassic Period of the geologic timescale. Lopingian and Early Triassic are geological epochs.
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Eurypterid
Eurypterids, often informally called sea scorpions, are a group of extinct arthropods that form the order Eurypterida.
Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.
First appearance datum
First appearance datum (FAD) is a term used by geologists and paleontologists to designate the first appearance of a species in the geologic record.
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Geologic time scale
The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.
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Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point
A Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP), sometimes referred to as a golden spike, is an internationally agreed upon reference point on a stratigraphic section which defines the lower boundary of a stage on the geologic time scale.
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Goniatite
Goniatids, informally goniatites, are ammonoid cephalopods that form the order Goniatitida, derived from the more primitive Agoniatitida during the Middle Devonian some 390 million years ago (around Eifelian stage).
Gorgonopsia
Gorgonopsia (from the Greek Gorgon, a mythological beast, and 'aspect') is an extinct clade of sabre-toothed therapsids from the Middle to the Upper Permian, possibly even up to the Early Triassic, roughly between 265 and 252 million years ago.
Guadalupian
The Guadalupian is the second and middle series/epoch of the Permian. Lopingian and Guadalupian are geological epochs and Permian geochronology.
Hindeodus
Hindeodus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Anchignathodontidae.
Historical Biology
Historical Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of paleobiology.
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Horseshoe crab
Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the family Limulidae and are the only surviving xiphosurans.
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International Commission on Stratigraphy
The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), sometimes unofficially referred to as the "International Stratigraphic Commission", is a daughter or major subcommittee grade scientific daughter organization that concerns itself with stratigraphical, geological, and geochronological matters on a global scale.
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Kathwaia
Kathwaia is a genus of trilobite known from the late Permian of Pakistan.
Laibin
Laibin (Zhuang: Laizbinh) is a prefecture-level city in the central part of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.
Leping
Leping is a county-level city in the northeast of Jiangxi province, China.
Meishan
Meishan (Sichuanese Pinyin: Mi2san1; local pronunciation), formerly known as Meizhou (眉州) or Qingzhou (青州), is a prefecture-level city with 2,955,219 inhabitants as of 2020 census whom 1,232,648 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of the 2 urban districts of Dongpo and Pengshan.
Milankovitch cycles
Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate over thousands of years.
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Nature Communications
Nature Communications is a peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio since 2010.
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Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Paleo-Tethys Ocean
The Paleo-Tethys or Palaeo-Tethys Ocean was an ocean located along the northern margin of the paleocontinent Gondwana that started to open during the Middle Cambrian, grew throughout the Paleozoic, and finally closed during the Late Triassic; existing for about 400 million years.
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Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
Pangaea
Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
Paratirolites
Paratirolites is a genus of latest Permian and earliest Triassic ceratites from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, China and Iran with distinct ribs, prominent ventro-lateral tubercles, and a broadly arched venter.
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Pareiasauria
Pareiasaurs (meaning "cheek lizards") are an extinct clade of large, herbivorous parareptiles.
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Permian
The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.
Permian–Triassic extinction event
Approximately 251.9 million years ago, the Permian–Triassic (P–T, P–Tr) extinction event (PTME; also known as the Late Permian extinction event, the Latest Permian extinction event, the End-Permian extinction event, and colloquially as the Great Dying) forms the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, and with them the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
Prolecanitida
Prolecanitida is an order of extinct ammonoid cephalopods, the major Late Paleozoic group of ammonoids alongside the order Goniatitida.
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Scutosaurus
Scutosaurus ("shield lizard") is an extinct genus of pareiasaur parareptiles.
Series (stratigraphy)
Series are subdivisions of rock layers based on the age of the rock and formally defined by international conventions of the geological timescale. Lopingian and Series (stratigraphy) are geological epochs.
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Smilesaurus
Smilesaurus is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian known from South Africa.
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Stage (stratigraphy)
In chronostratigraphy, a stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition.
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Tethys Ocean
The Tethys Ocean (Τηθύς), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era and early-mid Cenozoic Era.
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Therocephalia
Therocephalia is an extinct clade of eutheriodont therapsids (mammals and their close relatives) from the Permian and Triassic periods.
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Trilobite
Trilobites (meaning "three lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita.
Woodwardopterus
Woodwardopterus is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid, or sea scorpion, classified as part of the family Mycteroptidae.
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Wuchiapingian
In the geologic timescale, the Wuchiapingian or Wujiapingian (from in the Liangshan area of Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province) is an age or stage of the Permian. Lopingian and Wuchiapingian are Permian geochronology.
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Xenodiscoidea
Xenodiscoidea, formerly Xenodiscaceae, is a superfamily within the ammonoid order Ceratitida.
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Zechstein
The Zechstein (German either from mine stone or tough stone) is a unit of sedimentary rock layers of Late Permian (Lopingian) age located in the European Permian Basin which stretches from the east coast of England to northern Poland.
See also
Geological epochs
- Cambrian Series 2
- Capitalocene
- Cisuralian
- Early Cretaceous
- Early Devonian
- Early Jurassic
- Early Ordovician
- Early Triassic
- Eocene
- Furongian
- Greenlandian
- Guadalupian
- Holocene
- Late Cretaceous
- Late Devonian
- Late Jurassic
- Late Ordovician
- Late Triassic
- Llandovery Epoch
- Lopingian
- Ludlow Epoch
- Ludlow epoch
- Meghalayan
- Miaolingian
- Middle Devonian
- Middle Jurassic
- Middle Triassic
- Miocene
- Mississippian (geology)
- Northgrippian
- Oligocene
- Paleocene
- Pennsylvanian (geology)
- Pleistocene
- Pliocene
- Pridoli Epoch
- Pridoli epoch
- Series (stratigraphy)
- Terreneuvian
- Wenlock Epoch
- Wenlock epoch
Permian geochronology
- Artinskian
- Asselian
- Capitanian
- Changhsingian
- Cisuralian
- Guadalupian
- Kungurian
- Lopingian
- Ochoan
- Permo-Carboniferous
- Roadian
- Sakmarian
- Wordian
- Wuchiapingian
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopingian
Also known as Late Permian, Lopingian Epoch.
, Stage (stratigraphy), Tethys Ocean, Therocephalia, Trilobite, Woodwardopterus, Wuchiapingian, Xenodiscoidea, Zechstein.