“…These features indicate that the Palaeo‐Tethyan Ocean was still subducting during the Late Permian–Early Triassic. This is further supported by the Late Carboniferous mid‐ocean ridge basalts (308 Ma; Yang et al, ), the Early Permian subduction‐related mafic dyke swarm (277.76 ± 2.72 Ma; Liu et al, ) and A‐type syenogranite (Peng et al, ), Middle Permian flysch sediments (Li, Ji, et al, ), subduction‐related unconformity between Upper and Middle Permian rocks (Figure ; Li, Ji, et al, ; Li et al, ; Zhang et al, ), Late Permian active continental margin marine molasses (Li, Pei, et al, ; Yang et al, ), 260–255 Ma island arc volcanic rocks (Jiang et al, ; Shi et al, ; Yang, Xu, Li, & Shi, ) and 263–249 Ma subduction‐related granitoids and lamprophyres (Figure ; Chen, Gehrels, et al, ; Chen, Wang, et al, ; Xiong et al, ; Xiong et al, ; Xiong et al, ; Zhang et al, ).…”