Postglacial Early Permian (late Sakmarian–early Artinskian) shallow-marine carbonate deposition along a 2000km transect from Timor to west Australia

Faunal similarity in Madagascan and South Indian Late Cretaceous vertebrate faunas

“…The present study together with our recent studies in the East Gondwana interior rift (Davydov et al, 2013;Haig et al, 2014) have provided us with a much broader view of the relationships between stratigraphic patterns, intracontinental rifting and climate during the Pennsylvanian and Cisuralian in this region, as well as a better understanding of the biotic changes during Cisuralian amelioration of climate following melting of the Pennsylvanian continental ice sheet.…”

“…The thicknesses of the Kulau and Maubisse limestones can be measured in continuous sections (Davydov et al, 2013;Haig et al, 2014); however, the younger limestone units (Fig. 3) seem much thinner and are present in a melange of highly deformed ductile mudstone which has dislocated the stratigraphy.…”

Syn‐rift sequence development in a fault‐controlled embayment (Early Permian Irwin River Coal Measures, Northern Perth Basin, Western Australia)

“…Gondwanan rift basins became the loci for deposition of fluvial to shallow marine, coal‐bearing sedimentary successions as exemplified by the: Karoo Basin (South Africa; Cadle et al ., ); Paraná Basin (Brazil; Holz, ); Raniganj Basin (India; Bhattacharya et al ., ); Sydney Basin (Eastern Australia; Fielding et al ., ); and Canning Basin (Western Australia; Mory, ). In Western Australia, the Artinskian Irwin River Coal Measures were deposited in the Northern Perth Basin, one in a series of rift basins that initiated in south‐western Australia in the Late Carboniferous (Norvick, ; Jones et al ., ; Rollet et al ., ; Haig et al ., ) (Fig. ).…”

Eurydesma–Lyonia fauna (Early Permian) from the Itararé group, Paraná Basin (Brazil): A paleobiogeographic W–E trans-Gondwanan marine connection

“…The main fossils consist of sponges, actinopterygian fishes, bivalves, coelacanth scales, coprolites, conodonts, brachiopods, insects, scolecodonts, shark teeth, and fragments of wood (Mouro et al, 2014; and references provided therein). Wilner (2014) assigned the conodont remains to Mesogondelella spp., a cold-water tolerant genus (Kozur, 1998;Henderson and Mei, 2000) that is also present in younger strata of the Canning Basin in Western Australia (Nicoll and Metcalfe, 1998;Haig et al, 2014). Although purely speculative at this time, a possible link to the short-lived warming spike thermal event reported from the latest Carboniferous in high paleolatitudes of Siberia and Gondwanic deposits of Timor should be investigated (Davydov et al, 2013;Davydov and Biakov, 2015).…”

“…In western Australia (eastern Gondwana), the Eurydesma fauna was recorded throughout the upper part of the glacial-related Lyons Group and the postglacial Carrandibby Formation (still with scattered glacial erratics: Mory and Haig, 2011), Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. The age of this interval bearing the Eurydesma fauna is constrained by superpositional locations below the ammonoid Juresanites jacksoni (Etheridge, 1907) and Uraloceras irwinense (Teichert and Glenister, 1952) occurrences that are estimated to be late Sakmarian in age (Leonova, 1999(Leonova, , 2011Archbold, 1999Archbold, , 2001Haig et al, 2014). The well-established transitional stratigraphic relationship (Hocking, 1990;Crostella, 1995;Mory and Backhouse, 1997;Mory et al, 2008) between the Carrandibby Formation (Byro Subbasin), bearing the uppermost Eurydesma occurrences, and the Callytharra Formation, with a relatively diversified fauna and incoming elements with Tethyan affinities (Dickins and Thomas, 1959), reinforces the above-suggested diachronic condition with this youngest Eurydesma record and that from the Hardap shale Member in Namibia.…”