Permian rugose coral faunas of Inner Mongolia–Northeast China and Japan: Paleobiogeographical implications

Triassic 40Ar/39Ar ages from the Sakaigawa unit, Kii Peninsula, Japan: implications for possible merger of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt with large-scale tectonic systems of the East Asian margin

“…6a) is in agreement with reconstructions based on Middle Permian fusulinacean fossils (Kurosegawa terrane, Colania-Lepidolina territory; Hada et al 2001), Early to Middle Permian ammonoids (South Kitakami terrane; Ehiro et al 2005) and Early to Middle Permian rugose coral faunas that are comparable to those in South China but absent in North China (South Kitakami terrane; Wang et al 2006).…”

Smithian and Spathian (Early Triassic) ammonoid assemblages from terranes: Paleoceanographic and paleogeographic implications

“…Interpretation of Early Triassic climatic fluctuations is illustrated column 6. Tazawa, 2002;Kobayashi, 2003;Kashiyama and Oji, 2004;Wang et al, 2006 for Japanese terranes; Shi et al, 2003;Kotlyar et al, 2006Kotlyar et al, , 2007 for the South Primorye). Concerning Permian times, taxa considered in such biogeographical analyses (as well as for biostratigraphic correlations) are brachiopods, bivalves and foraminifers, sometimes completed with ammonoid data (e.g.…”

“…On the one hand, based on coral, bivalves, foraminifer or ammonoid faunas, SK is often considered to have been located at a southern equatorial position, close to South China during the Late Permian (Ehiro, 1997(Ehiro, , 2005Ehiro and Kanisawa, 1999;Hasegawa et al, 2003;Kashiyama and Oji, 2004;Wang et al, 2006). On the other hand, some authors place the SK massif close to North China, essentially justifying their opinions on brachiopod assemblages (Shi et al, 1995;Tazawa, 2002;Shi, 2006).…”

Recognition of the Phanerozoic “Young granite gneiss” in the central Yeongnam massif

“…Widespread magmatism during the period from the Late Permian to Middle Triassic is well known within South China (e.g., Wang et al, 2001Wang et al, , 2006Wang et al, , 2007aLi et al, 2006;Li and Li, 2007). Li et al (2006) suggested that the Indosinian Orogeny of South China was likely contemporaneous with the onset of continental arc magmatism, initiated at 267-262 Ma.…”