西秦岭地区二叠纪‒三叠纪之交深海遗迹化石演化特征

冯学谦; 陈中强; 赵来时; 黄元耕; 剡鹏兵

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Feng Xueqian, Chen Zhong-Qiang, Zhao Laishi, Huang Yuangeng, Yan Pengbing, 2025. The Evolution of Trace Fossils across the Permian⁃Triassic Mass Extinction in Deep Marine from the Western Qinling. Earth Science, 50(3): 1000-1022. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2025.030

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Feng Xueqian, Chen Zhong-Qiang, Zhao Laishi, Huang Yuangeng, Yan Pengbing, 2025. The Evolution of Trace Fossils across the Permian⁃Triassic Mass Extinction in Deep Marine from the Western Qinling. Earth Science, 50(3): 1000-1022. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2025.030

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Feng Xueqian, Chen Zhong-Qiang, Zhao Laishi, Huang Yuangeng, Yan Pengbing, 2025. The Evolution of Trace Fossils across the Permian⁃Triassic Mass Extinction in Deep Marine from the Western Qinling. Earth Science, 50(3): 1000-1022. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2025.030

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The Evolution of Trace Fossils across the Permian⁃Triassic Mass Extinction in Deep Marine from the Western Qinling

doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2025.030

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State Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430078, China
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State Key Laboratory of Geological Process and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430078, China
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Geological Party No. 208, China National Nuclear Corporation, Baotou 014000, China

Received Date: 2024-12-01
Publish Date: 2025-03-25

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The ichnoecological variations across the Permian⁃Triassic mass extinction have been well studied, but most studies focused on shallow marine environments. The ichnological characteristic and its evolution in deep marine remain unclear across the mass extinction. This paper investigates abundant ichnofossils in three deep marine sections from the West Qinling area of North China, and systematically describes 18 ichnogenera. The study shows that the diversity of ichnofossil in deep marine did not change across the mass extinction, but a large number of graphoglyptid trace fossils appeared in the Early Triassic. Further quantitative analysis by using ecospace utilization and ecosystem engineering methods reveals that ecospace utilization and ecosystem engineering parameters of trace-making organisms apparently declined after the mass extinction, especially in the deep tier. Unlike the siliciclastic nearshore 'habitable zone' refuges, the feedback effects of ecosystem engineers on the recovery of in deep marine ecosystem after the mass extinction is relatively weak. The deep marine environmental setting is unfavourable to the colonization of shallow-sea opportunistic organisms and may not have acted as a refuge after the mass extinction.
- trace fossils,
- deep marine,
- refuge,
- ecosystem engineers,
- West Qinling area,
- ecology,
- stratigraphy

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