Palynology of the Kazanian stratotype section (Permian, Russia) : palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic implications

摘要

Palynomorph assemblages reflect changes in land plant communities and are thussignificant proxies to interpret palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic changes. The Middle Permianof the East European Platform is crucial to the understanding of marine and non-marine palaeoclimatearchives and interregional correlations of marine and non-marine successions, utilizing palaeoclimatesignatures documented in the palynological record. New palynological data from the Kazanianstratotype section are presented and interpreted with respect to palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate.This dataset will serve as a basis for ongoing studies on the type area of the Kazanian and the mid-Permian biodiversity patterns, preceding the end-Guadalupian crisis and the changes of the end-Permian biotic diversification followed by the most severe extinction event in Earth’s history at thePermian-Triassic boundary.