Sakmarian

Sakmarian

Sakmarian

Second stage of the Permian

In the geologic timescale, the Sakmarian is an age or stage of the Permian period. It is a subdivision of the Cisuralian Epoch or Series. The Sakmarian lasted between 293.52 and 290.1 million years ago (Ma). It was preceded by the Asselian and followed by the Artinskian.[4]

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Stratigraphy

The Sakmarian Stage is named after the Sakmara River in the Ural Mountains, a tributary to the Ural River. The stage was introduced into scientific literature by Alexander Karpinsky in 1874. In Russian stratigraphy, it originally formed a substage of the Artinskian Stage. Currently, the ICS (International Commission on Stratigraphy) uses it as an independent stage in its international geologic timescale.

The base of the Sakmarian Stage is defined by the first appearance of conodont species Streptognathodus postfusus in the fossil record. A global reference profile for the base (a GSSP), located in the southern Ural Mountains, Russia, was ratified in 2018. The top of the Sakmarian (the base of the Artinskian) is defined as the place in the stratigraphic record where fossils of conodont species Sweetognathus whitei and Mesogondolella bisselli first appear.

References

  1. [1]
    "Chart/Time Scale". www.stratigraphy.org. International Commission on Stratigraphy.
  2. [2]
    Shen, Shuzhong (August 2018). "Notes from the SPS Chair" (PDF). Permophile: 4. ISSN 1684-5927. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  3. [3]
    "Ratification of Artinskian GSSP". International Commission on Stratigraphy. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  4. [4]
    Gradstein, F.M.; Ogg, J.G. & Smith, A.G.; 2004: A Geologic Time Scale 2004, Cambridge University Press
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