“…However, evidence from the eastern Tethys region (Asia) is still sparse, with only systematic studies reporting on e.g. palaeobotany, palynology, bivalve stratigraphy and palaeoclimate in the Junggar Basin, NW China Deng, 2005, 2009;Deng et al, 2010;Sun et al, 2010;Sha et al, 2011Sha et al, , 2015; palynostratigraphy in the Tarim Basin, NW China (Peng et al, 2018); Late Triassic terrestrial palynology and ecosystem variation preceding the end-Triassic mass extinction event in the Sichuan Basin, SW China (Li et al, 2016(Li et al, , 2018.…”