Wuchiapingian

Short description: Eighth stage of the Permian

Wuchiapingian

259.51 ± 0.21 – 254.14 ± 0.07 Ma

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Wuchiapingian aged stratigraphic succession including the Kupferschiefer, Kamsdorf mine near Saalfeld, Thuringia, Germany

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Gzhelian

Asselian

Sakmarian

Artinskian

Kungurian

Roadian

Wordian

Capitanian

Wuchiapingian

Changhsingian

Induan

Permian-Triassic mass extinction event

end-Capitanian extinction event

Olson's Extinction

Subdivision of the Permian according to the ICS, as of 2021.[1]
Vertical axis scale: millions of years ago.

Etymology
Name formality| Formal
Usage information
Celestial body| Earth
Regional usage| Global (ICS)
Time scale(s) used| ICS Time Scale
Definition
Chronological unit| Age
Stratigraphic unit| Stage
Time span formality| Formal
Lower boundary definition| FAD of the Conodont Clarkina postbitteri postbitteri
Lower boundary GSSP| Penglaitan Section, Laibin, Guangxi, China
[ ⚑ ] 23°41′43″N 109°19′16″E﻿ / ﻿23.6953°N 109.3211°E﻿ / 23.6953; 109.3211
GSSP ratified| 2004[2]
Upper boundary definition| Meishan, Zhejiang, China
Upper boundary GSSP| FAD of the Conodont Clarkina wangi
[ ⚑ ] 31°04′55″N 119°42′23″E﻿ / ﻿31.0819°N 119.7064°E﻿ / 31.0819; 119.7064
GSSP ratified| 2005[3]

In the geologic timescale, the Wuchiapingian or Wujiapingian (from Chinese: 吴家坪; pinyin: Wújiāpíng; literally: 'Wu Family Flatland"' in the Liangshan area of Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province[4]) is an age or stage of the Permian. It is also the lower or earlier of two subdivisions of the Lopingian Epoch or Series. The Wuchiapingian spans the time between 259.1 and 254.14 million years ago (Ma). It was preceded by the Capitanian and followed by the Changhsingian.[5]

Regional stages with which the Wuchiapingian is coeval or overlaps include the Djulfian or Dzhulfian, Longtanian, Rustlerian, Saladoan, and Castilian.[6]

## Contents

* 1 Stratigraphic definitions
* 2 Wuchiapingian life
* 3 Notable formations
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Stratigraphic definitions

The Wuchiapingian was first used in 1962, when the Lopingian Series of southwestern China was divided in the Changhsingian and Wuchiapingian Formations. In 1973 the Wuchiapingian was first used as a chronostratigraphic unit (i.e. a stage, as opposed to a formation, which is a lithostratigraphic unit).[7]

The base of the Wuchiapingian Stage is defined as the place in the stratigraphic record where the conodont species Clarkina postbitteri postbitteri first appears. A global reference profile for this boundary (a GSSP) is located near Laibin in the Chinese province of Guangxi.[2]

The top of the Wuchiapingian (the base of the Changhsingian) is at the first appearance of conodont species Clarkina wangi.

The Wuchiapingian contains two ammonoid biozones: that of the genus Araxoceras and that of the genera Roadoceras and Doulingoceras.

## Wuchiapingian life

An extinction pulse occurred during the Wuchiapingian; faunas were recovering when another larger extinction pulse, the Permian–Triassic extinction event devastated life.[8]

A relatively diverse fish fauna is known from the coeval Kupferschiefer (Werra Formation, Germany), Marl Slate Formation (England) and Ravnefjeld Formation (Greenland), including, among others, the following genera: Acentrophorus, Acropholis, Boreolepis, Coelacanthus, Dorypterus, Janassa, Menaspis, Palaeoniscum, Platysomus, Pygopterus and Wodnika.[9][10] The Hambast Formation of Iran yielded chondrichthyan faunas of Wuchiapingian to Changhsingian age. The Wuchiapingian layers produced teeth of the eugeneodontid Bobbodus.[11]

## Notable formations

* Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone* (South Africa )
* Hambast Formation (Iran)
* Marl Slate Formation (England )
* Naobaogou Formation (Inner Mongolia, China)
* Ravnefjeld Formation (Greenland)
* Sunjiagou Formation (Shanxi, China)
* Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone* (South Africa)
* Usili Formation* (Tanzania)
* Werra Formation (Kupferschiefer, Germany )

* Tentatively assigned to the Wuchiapingian; age estimated primarily via terrestrial tetrapod biostratigraphy

## References

1. ↑ "Chart/Time Scale". International Commission on Stratigraphy. http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jin, Yugan; Shen, Shuzhong; Henderson, Charles; Wang, Xiangdong; Wang, Wei; Wang, Yue; Cao, Changqun; Shang, Qinghua (December 2006). "The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the boundary between the Capitanian and Wuchiapingian Stage (Permian)". Episodes 29 (4): 253–262. doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2006/v29i4/003. https://stratigraphy.org/gssps/files/wuchiapingian.pdf. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
3. ↑ Jin, Yugan; Wang, Yue; Henderson, Charles; Wardlaw, Bruce; Shen, Shuzhong; Cao, Changqun (September 2006). "The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of Changhsingian Stage (Upper Permian)". Episodes 29 (3): 175–182. doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2006/v29i3/003.
4. ↑ "陕西汉中梁山吴家坪灰岩的再研究 (Restudies on the Wujiaping Limestone Liangshan of Hanzhong, Shaanxi)". http://www.nigpas.ac.cn/lib/bscbp/cbpshow2.asp?chansid=1866.
5. ↑ Gradstein, F.M.; Ogg, J.G.; Smith, A.G. (2004). A Geologic Time Scale 2004. Cambridge University Press.
6. ↑ "Wuchiapingian". GeoWhen Database, International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). http://stratigraphy.org/bak/geowhen/stages/Wuchiapingian.html.
7. ↑ Kanmera, Kametoshi; Nakazawa, Keiji (1973). "Permian-Triassic relationships and faunal changes in the eastern Tethys". The Permian and Triassic Systems and their mutual boundary. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 2. pp. 100–129.
8. ↑ Sahney, S.; Benton, M.J. (2008). "Recovery from the most profound mass extinction of all time". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1636): 759–65. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1370. PMID 18198148.
9. ↑ Schaumberg, Günther (1977). "Die Richelsdorfer Kupferschiefer und seine Fossilien, III". Aufschluss 28: 297–352.
10. ↑ Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (February 2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138.
11. ↑ Hampe, Oliver; Hairapetian, Vachik; Dorka, Markus; Witzmann, Florian; Akbari, Amir M.; Korn, Dieter (2013). "A first Late Permian fish fauna from Baghuk Mountain (Neo-Tethyan shelf, central Iran)". Bulletin of Geosciences 88 (1): 1–20. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1357. ISSN 1214-1119.

## External links

* GeoWhen Database - Wuchiapingian
* Upper Paleozoic stratigraphic chart at the website of the subcommission for stratigraphic information of the ICS

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