Transient metazoan reefs in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction.
5 pages International audience Recovery from the devastating Permian-Triassic mass extinction about 252 million years ago is usually assumed to have spanned the entire 5 million years of the Early Triassic epoch1,2. The post-crisis interval was characterized by large-scale fluctuations of the global...
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ftinsu:oai:HAL:hal-00628213v1 2024-01-07T09:45:43+01:00 Transient metazoan reefs in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. Brayard, Arnaud Vennin, Emmanuelle Olivier, Nicolas Bylund, Kevin G. Jenks, Jim Stephen, Daniel A. Bucher, Hugo Hofmann, Richard Goudemand, Nicolas Escarguel, Gilles Biogéosciences UMR 6282 (BGS) Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE) École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL) Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Earth Science Utah Valley University (UVU) Paläontologisches Institut und Museum Universität Zürich Zürich = University of Zurich (UZH) Work funded by the Région Bourgogne, the FRB, the INSU Interrvie, and by the Swiss NSF project 200020-113554. 2011-10-01 https://hal.science/hal-00628213 https://doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1264 en eng HAL CCSD Nature Publishing Group info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/NGEO1264 hal-00628213 https://hal.science/hal-00628213 doi:10.1038/NGEO1264 ISSN: 1752-0894 Nature Geoscience https://hal.science/hal-00628213 Nature Geoscience, 2011, 4 (10), pp.693-697. ⟨10.1038/NGEO1264⟩ [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology [SDU.STU.ST]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Stratigraphy info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2011 ftinsu https://doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1264 2023-12-13T17:22:32Z 5 pages International audience Recovery from the devastating Permian-Triassic mass extinction about 252 million years ago is usually assumed to have spanned the entire 5 million years of the Early Triassic epoch1,2. The post-crisis interval was characterized by large-scale fluctuations of the global carbon cycle and harsh marine conditions, including a combination of ocean acidification, euxinia, and fluctuating productivity3. During this interval, metazoan-dominated reefs are thought to have been replaced by microbial deposits that are considered the hallmark of the Early Triassic4-7. Here we use field and microscopic investigations to document Early Triassic bioaccumulations and reefs from the western USA that comprise of various sponges and serpulids associated with microbialites and other eukaryotic benthic organisms. These metazoan-rich reefs were formed only 1.5 million years after the extinction, in contrast to previous suggestions of a much delayed recovery of complex benthic communities. We conclude that the predominance of microbial reefs following the mass extinction is restricted to short intervals of the earliest Triassic. We suggest that metazoan reef building continued throughout the Early Triassic wherever permitted by environmental conditions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: HAL-INSU Nature Geoscience 4 10 693 697 |
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5 pages International audience Recovery from the devastating Permian-Triassic mass extinction about 252 million years ago is usually assumed to have spanned the entire 5 million years of the Early Triassic epoch1,2. The post-crisis interval was characterized by large-scale fluctuations of the global carbon cycle and harsh marine conditions, including a combination of ocean acidification, euxinia, and fluctuating productivity3. During this interval, metazoan-dominated reefs are thought to have been replaced by microbial deposits that are considered the hallmark of the Early Triassic4-7. Here we use field and microscopic investigations to document Early Triassic bioaccumulations and reefs from the western USA that comprise of various sponges and serpulids associated with microbialites and other eukaryotic benthic organisms. These metazoan-rich reefs were formed only 1.5 million years after the extinction, in contrast to previous suggestions of a much delayed recovery of complex benthic communities. We conclude that the predominance of microbial reefs following the mass extinction is restricted to short intervals of the earliest Triassic. We suggest that metazoan reef building continued throughout the Early Triassic wherever permitted by environmental conditions. |
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Biogéosciences UMR 6282 (BGS) Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE) École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL) Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Earth Science Utah Valley University (UVU) Paläontologisches Institut und Museum Universität Zürich Zürich = University of Zurich (UZH) Work funded by the Région Bourgogne, the FRB, the INSU Interrvie, and by the Swiss NSF project 200020-113554. |
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Transient metazoan reefs in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. |
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Transient metazoan reefs in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. |
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