In the geologic timescale, the Capitanian is an age or stage of the Permian. It is also the uppermost or latest of three subdivisions of the Guadalupian Epoch or Series. The Capitanian lasted between 264.28 and 259.51 million years ago. It was preceded by the Wordian and followed by the Wuchiapingian.[4]
A significant mass extinction event occurred at the end of this stage, which was associated with anoxia and acidification in the oceans and possibly caused by the volcanic eruptions that produced the Emeishan Traps.[5] This extinction event may be related to the much larger Permian–Triassic extinction event that followed about 10 million years later.
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In the geologic timescale, the Capitanian is an age or stage of the Permian. It is also the uppermost or latest of three subdivisions of the Guadalupian...
Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Capitanian mass extinction event, also known as the end-Guadalupian extinction event...
called Olson's Extinction and a significant mass extinction called the end-Capitanian extinction event. The Guadalupian was previously known as the Middle Permian...
more advanced therapsids. The end of the Capitanian Stage of the Permian was marked by the major Capitanian mass extinction event, associated with the...
family of parareptiles from the Middle Permian to the Late Permian period (Capitanian - Changhsingian stages) of South Africa. The millerettids were small insectivores...
between 279.5 and 260 million years ago (Ma), but became extinct during the Capitanian mass extinction event. Dinocephalians included herbivorous, carnivorous...
went extinct. The series follows the Guadalupian, which ended with the Capitanian mass extinction, during which many species of brachiopods, ammonoids and...
dominant land animals for some 40 million years. A few continued into the Capitanian, but they experienced a sharp decline in diversity in the late Kungurian...
known as the Carboniferous-Earliest Permian Biodiversification Event. The Capitanian mass extinction event c. 260 Ma, however, put an end to that development...
End-Triassic, and End-Cretaceous, along with the more recently recognised Capitanian mass extinction of comparable severity to the Big Five. A 2008 study,...
dominant land animals for some 40 million years. A few continued into the Capitanian. They were succeeded by the therapsids. Dimetrodon, a pelycosaur, was...
million years ago (Ma). It was preceded by the Roadian and followed by the Capitanian. The Wordian Stage was introduced into scientific literature by Johan...
the regional timescale used for the southeastern US had the Wordian and Capitanian as subdivisions of the Guadalupian. Efforts to correlate the Permian stratigraphy...
between 259.51 and 254.14 million years ago (Ma). It was preceded by the Capitanian and followed by the Changhsingian. Regional stages with which the Wuchiapingian...
the Sphenacodontidae may have become extinct as recently as the early Capitanian. Primitive forms were generally small (60 cm to 1 meter), but during the...
It lived at the end of the Guadalupian (= Middle Permian) during the Capitanian stage, about 265 to 260 million years ago in what is now South Africa...
mass extinction or sixth extinction; given the recent recognition of the Capitanian mass extinction, the term seventh mass extinction has also been proposed...
Saurians Temporal range: Capitanian–Present, 265.8–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N clockwise from top left: Agkistrodon contortrix (the copperhead, a...
morphological and taxonomic diversity of conodonts was more affected by the Capitanian mass extinction event than by Permian–Triassic extinction event, and that...
associated with the end-Capitanian mass extinction event, the extinction of animal and plant life that occurred at the end of the Capitanian stage of the Guadalupian...
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