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Wordian
266.9 ± 0.4 – 264.28 ± 0.16 Ma
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Lower boundary definitionFAD of the Conodont Jinogondolella aserrata
Lower boundary GSSPGuadalupe Pass, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas, USA
31°51′57″N 104°49′58″W / 31.8658°N 104.8328°W / 31.8658; -104.8328
Lower GSSP ratified2001[2]
Upper boundary definitionFAD of the Conodont Jinogondolella postserrata
Upper boundary GSSPNipple Hill, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas, USA
31°54′33″N 104°47′21″W / 31.9091°N 104.7892°W / 31.9091; -104.7892
Upper GSSP ratified2001[2]

In the geologic timescale, the Wordian is an age or stage of the Permian. It is the middle of three subdivisions of the Guadalupian Epoch or Series. The Wordian lasted between 266.9 and 264.28 million years ago (Ma). It was preceded by the Roadian and followed by the Capitanian.[3]

  1. ^ "Chart/Time Scale". www.stratigraphy.org. International Commission on Stratigraphy.
  2. ^ a b "GSSP for Roadian Stage". International Commission on Stratigraphy. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  3. ^ Gradstein, F.M.; Ogg, J.G. & Smith, A.G.; 2004: A Geologic Time Scale 2004, Cambridge University Press

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Wordian

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Guadalupian

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more information on this topic. The Wordian Stage was between 268.8 ± 0.5 – 265.1 ± 0.4 Mya. The base of the Wordian Stage is defined as the place in the...

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Roadian

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the Kungurian and followed by the Wordian. In 1961, the regional timescale used for the southeastern US had the Wordian and Capitanian as subdivisions of...

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Permian

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Lopingian, Capitanian and part of the Wordian, while the underlying Kazanian includes the rest of the Wordian as well as the Roadian. In North America...

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Prostacheoceras

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1887: Wordian of Italy Prostacheoceras burnense Tumanskaia, 1931: Roadian of Russia (Crimea) Prostacheoceras chinense Wang, 1983: Asselian - Wordian of China...

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Serpulidae

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live in saline waters. The earliest serpulids are known from the Permian (Wordian to late Permian). The blood of most species of serpulid and sabellid worms...

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Ivantosaurus

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Ivantosaurus is an extinct genus of therapsid that lived in Russia during the Wordian stage of the Permian period, named in honor of paleontologist Ivan Antonovich...

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Capitanian

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lasted between 264.28 and 259.51 million years ago. It was preceded by the Wordian and followed by the Wuchiapingian. A significant mass extinction event...

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Reesodus

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hybodontiform. It lived from the Tournaisian age of the Early Carboniferous to the Wordian age of the Permian, and remains have been found in England, Russia and...

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Geologic time scale

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* Wuchiapingian 259.51 ± 0.21 * Guadalupian Capitanian 264.28 ± 0.16 * Wordian 266.9 ± 0.4 * Roadian 273.01 ± 0.14 * Cisuralian Kungurian 283.5 ± 0.6...

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Elasmobranchii

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Twitchett, Richard J. (March 2013). "A new diverse shark fauna from the Wordian (Middle Permian) Khuff Formation in the interior Haushi-Huqf area, Sultanate...

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List of Hangul jamo

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a character code system that was used in Hangul word processor version Wordian to 2007. This system maps old Hangul to the Private Use Area in Unicode...

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Hydrachnidia

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Karoo locality within the Karoo Supergroup in South Africa, dating to the Wordian stage of the Middle Permian, approximately 266 million years ago. Di Sabatino...

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Capitanian mass extinction event

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event but a continuous decline in diversity that began at the end of the Wordian. Another study examining fossiliferous facies in Svalbard found no evidence...

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Zechstein

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Guadalupian Lopingian Gzhelian Asselian Sakmarian Artinskian Kungurian Roadian Wordian Capitanian Wuchiapingian Changhsingian Zechstein Rotliegend         Cisuralian...

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Khuff Formation

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fauna from the Wordian (Middle Permian) Khuff Formation in the interior Haushi-Huqf area, Sultanate of Oman: CHONDRICHTHYANS FROM THE WORDIAN KHUFF FORMATION...

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Caseidae

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from the Roadian-Wordian of Russia, Alierasaurus from the Roadian-(Wordian?) of Sardinia, and Lalieudorhynchus from the late Wordian-early Capitanian...

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Pampaphoneus

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family Anteosauridae. It lived 268 to 265 million years ago during the Wordian age of the Guadalupian (= middle Permian) period in what is now Brazil...

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Gorgonopsia

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dating to the Wordian. Phorcys from the lowermost end of Karoo's Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, roughly dating a little later to the Wordian/Capitanian...

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Dinocephalia

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were already a diverse group of herbivores and carnivores. During the Wordian and early Capitanian, advanced dinocephalians radiated into a large number...

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Word Formation

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for the Old Word Ranch in the Glass Mountains of Brewster County. The Wordian age of the Permian Period is named for the Word Formation. The formation...

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Utgaardostylus

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H. (November 2014). "Bryozoa of the uppermost Gerster Limestone (late Wordian, Permian), Medicine Range, northeastern Nevada, U.S.A.". Rocky Mountain...

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Gnishik Formation

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formation in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran. It preserves fossils dated to the Wordian age of the Permian period. The thin-bedded limestones of the formation...

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Lalieudorhynchus

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the Middle Wordian 266.66 ± 0.76 million years ago. Therefore, this part of the formation would probably have a late Roadian – early Wordian age, while...

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Tapinocephalidae

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a worldwide (Pangean) distribution. They flourished briefly during the Wordian and Capitanian ages, radiating into several lineages, existing simultaneously...

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Alierasaurus

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younger rocks (ichnogenus Merifontichnus from the La Lieude Formation (Wordian) in the Lodève basin). Remains of Alierasaurus were discovered grouped...

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Amelacanthus

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Famennian of Russia. Possible specimens of Amelacanthus were found in Permian (Wordian) sediments of Oman. Elliott, D. K., Randall B. Irmis, Hansen, M. C., &...

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Estemmenosuchidae

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Estemmenosuchids replaced the caseids as the dominant megaherbivores of the Wordian age (middle of the Middle Permian), before being themselves replaced by...

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Glossopteris

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2018, Glossopteris leaves were reported from mid-Permian (Roadian – early Wordian) deposits in Mongolia, then located at high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere...

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