| Literature DB >> 15661973 |
Peter D Ward1, Jennifer Botha, Roger Buick, Michiel O De Kock, Douglas H Erwin, Geoffrey H Garrison, Joseph L Kirschvink, Roger Smith.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15661973 DOI: 10.1126/science.1107068
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728