List of contributors

Preface

Hongfu YIN

J.M. DICKINS

G.R. SHI

Jinnan TONG

Part 1. Permian-Triassic strata and palaeogeography

Paleoclimatic constraints for Early Permian paleogeography of Eastern Tethys

Jiaxin YAN

Hongfu YIN

The Permian of Russia and CIS and its interregional correlation

G.V. Kotlyar

The Permian of South Europe and its interregional correlation

G. Cassinis

P.Di Stefano

F. Massari

C. Neri

C. Venturini

The Permian of China and its interregional correlation

Yugan JIN

Qinghua Shang

The Permian of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and its interregional correlation

Cu Tien Phan

The Permian of New Zealand and its interregional correlation

H.J. Campbell

Premian-Triassic successions in Japan: key to deciphering Permian/Triassic events

Y. Ezaki

A. Yao

Latest Permian and Triassic carbonates of Russia: new palaeontological findings, stable isotopes, Ca-Mg ratio and correlation

Y.D. Zakharov

N.G. Ukhaneva

A.V. Ignatyev

T.B. Afanasyeva

G.I. Buryi

E.S. Panasenko

A.M. Popov

T.A. Punina

A.K. Cherbadzhi

The Triassic of the Alps and Carpathians and its interregional correlation

A. Voros

The Triassic of China and its interregional correlation

Hongfu YIN

Yuanqiao Peng

The Triassic of Indochina peninsula and its interregional correlation

Vu Khuc

The Marine Triassic of Australasian and its interregional correlation

H.J. Campbell

J.A. Grant-Mackie

The northern margin of Gondwanaland: uppermost Carboniferous to lowermost Jurassic and its correlation

J.M. Dickins

Magnetic susceptibility and organic carbon isotopes of sediments across some marine and terrestrial Permo-Triassic boundaries

H.J. Hansen

S. Lojen

P. Toft

T. Dolenec

Jinnan Tong

P. Michaelsen

A. Sarkar

Part 2. Permian-Triassic biotic evolution

Evolution of the Permian and Triassic Foraminifera in South China

Jinnan Tong

G.R. Shi

Radiolarian evolution during the Permian and Triassic transition in South and Southwest China

Qinglai Feng

Fengqing Yang

Zhenfang Zhang

Ning Zhang

Yongqun Gao

Zhiping Wang

Asian-western Pacific Permian Brachiopoda in space and time: biogeography and Extinction patterns

G.R. Shi

Shuzhong Shen

Ammonoid Succession Model across the Paleozoic-Mesozoic transition in South China

Fengqing Yang

Hongmei Wang

On zonation and evolution of Permian and Triassic conodonts