“…The Guadalupian (Middle Permian, ~262 Mya) mass extinction event is associated with a signi cant negative CIE of >-5 ‰ disrupting the otherwise positive carbon isotope trend in Mid-Permian sediments (cf. Wang et al, 2004;Isozaki et al, 2007aIsozaki et al, , 2007bLai et al, 2008;Wignall et al, 2009;Bond et al, 2010a;Detian et al, 2013;Shen et al, 2013;Zhang et al, 2020;Li et al, 2023). This event is typically interpreted to be associated with an overall climatic cooling, a drop in biological productivity both on land and in the oceans, and the demise of many photosynthetic marine taxa (Wang et al, 2004;Isozaki et al, 2007aIsozaki et al, , 2007bDetian et al, 2013;Nishikane et al, 2014), formation of ocean strati cation and anoxia (Saitoh et al, 2013;Zhang et al, 2015), sea-level change (Wang et al, 2004;Lai et al, 2008;Wei et al, 2018), and methane release (Retallack and Jahren, 2008;Bond et al, 2010b).…”