“…The late Palaeozoic ice age (LPIA) started in the latest Devonian and ended in the middle Permian, when global palaeogeography (closure of Rheic Ocean and formation of supercontinent Pangaea) and land ecosystems (radiation and evolution of the oldest rainforests) experienced major changes (Chen, Montañez, Qi, Shen, & Wang, 2018;DiMichele, Cecil, & Montañez, 2014;Isbell et al, 2012;Montañez, 2016;Montañez & Poulsen, 2013;Veevers, 2013). Sedimentological and geochemical studies suggest that major continental glaciation on Gondwana was most likely initiated in the late Visean (e.g., Barham, Murray, Joachimski, & Williams, 2012;Fielding & Frank, 2015;Chen, Sheng, et al, 2018;Smith & Read, 2000;Wright & Vanstone, 2001) and reached the first peak in the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary (MPB) interval (B. Montañez & Poulsen, 2013).…”