Earth Surface Studies and Palaeontology

Paul Wignall

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Current research:

Currently my main research focus is on the link between mass extinctions and the eruptions of large igneous provinces, particularly between the Emeishan Province in the Middle Permian extinction and Central Atlantic Magamatic Province and the end-Triassic mass extinction. In addition, my long-running interest in the end-Permian mass extinction is focussed on the deep ocean records of Japan.

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Publications (by year)

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1986

1. Wignall, P.B. A guide to the geology of Turf Moor, Rossendale. The Amateur Geologist, 12, p. 28-29.

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1987

2. Wignall, P.B. A biofacies analysis of the Gastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band (Namurian) of the central Pennines. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 46, p. 111-121.

3. Myers, K.J. & Wignall, P.B. Understanding Jurassic organic-rich mudrocks- new concepts using gamma ray spectrometry and palaeoecology: examples from the Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset and the Jet Rock of Yorkshire. Leggett, J.K. & Zuffa, G.G. (editors) Marine clastic environments: concepts and case studies, p. 175-192, London, Graham & Trotman.

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1988

4. Wignall, P.B. A geological guide to the marine and deltaic sediments of the Silesian of Deeply Vale, north Bury. The Amateur Geologist, 12, p. 25-30.

5. Hewitt, R.A. & Wignall, P.B. Structure and phylogenetic significance of Trachyteuthis (Coleoidea) from the Kimmeridge clay of England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 47, p. 149-153.

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6. Wignall, P.B. & Myers, K.J. Interpreting benthic oxygen levels in mudrocks: a new approach. Geology, 16, p. 452-455.

1989

7. Wignall, P.B. Sedimentary dynamics of the Kimmeridge Clay: tempests and earthquakes. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 146, p. 273-284.

8. Wignall, P.B., Clements, R.G. & Simms, M.J. The Triassic-Jurassic boundary beds of the city of Leicester. Transactions of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, 83, p. 25-31.

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1990

9. Clausen, C.K. & Wignall, P.B. Early Kimmeridgian bivalves of southern England. Mesozoic Research, 2, p. 97-149.

10. Wignall, P.B. Benthic palaeoecology of the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay of England. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 43, 74pp.

11. Wignall, P.B. Ostracod and foraminifera micropaleoecology and its bearing on biostratigraphy: a case study from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of north west Europe. Palaios, 5, p. 219-226.

12. Wignall, P.B. Depositional history and palaeoecology of the Oxfordian/ Kimmeridgian boundary beds at South Ferriby, South Humberside. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 48, p. 197-208.

13. Wignall, P.B. & Ruffell, A.H. The influence of a sudden climatic change on marine deposition in the Kimmeridgian of north-west Europe. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 147, p. 365-371.

14. Wignall, P.B. & Simms, M.J. Pseudoplankton. Palaeontology, 33, p. 359-378.

15. Wignall, P.B.Observations on the evolution and classification of dysaerobic communities. In: Miller, W. (editor) Paleocommunity temporal dynamics: the long term development of multispecies assemblies, p. 99-111, Paleontological Society Special Publications, 5.

16. Wignall, P.B. High resolution event stratigraphy in the Kimmeridge Clay (Upper Jurassic) of England. Exploration Bulletin, 250, p. 54.

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1991

17. Maynard, J.R., Wignall, P.B. & Varker, W.J. A "hot", new shale facies from the Upper Carboniferous of northern England. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 148, p. 805-808.

18. Platt, N.H., Burns, S.J., Platt, J.D. & Wignall, P.B. Organic-rich deposits from the Callovian of the Sierra de la Demanda, northern Spain. Eclogae geologicae Helveticae, 84, p. 483-508.

19. Ruffell, A.H. & Wignall, P.B. Depositional trends in the Upper Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous of the northern margin of the Wessex Basin. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 101, p. 279-288.

20. Wignall, P.B. Model for transgressive black shales? Geology, 19, p. 167-170.

21. Wignall, P.B. Dysaerobic trace fossils and ichnofabrics in the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay of southern England. Palaios, 6, p. 264-270.

22. Wignall, P.B. Test of the concepts of sequence stratigraphy in the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of England and northern France. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 8, p. 430-441.

23. Wignall, P.B. & Hallam, A. Biofacies, stratigraphic distribution and depositional models of British onshore Jurassic black shales. In: Tyson, R.V. & Pearson, T.H. (editors) Modern and ancient continental shelf anoxia. p. 291-309, London,Geological Society of London Special Publication, 58.

24. Sageman, B.B., Wignall, P.B. & Kauffman, E.G. Biofacies models for black shales: tool for paleoenvironmental analysis. Einsele, G., Ricken, W. & Seilacher, A. (editors) Cycles and events in stratigraphy, p. 542-564, Berlin, Springer-Verlag.

25. Ruffell, A.H. & Wignall, P.B. Reply to Cox, B.M. et al. Thicknesses of the Kimmeridge Clay in the Oxford area. and, Moorlock, B. The Lower Greensand of the Woburn area, Bedfordshire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 102, p. 149-152.

26. Wignall, P.B. Depositional environments of mudrocks. Proceedings of the North East Lancashire Geological Association, 3, p. 657-661.

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1992

27. Hollingworth, N.T.J. & Wignall, P.B. The Callovian-Oxfordian boundary in Oxfordshire and Wiltshire based on two new temporary sections. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 103, p. 15-30.

28. Wignall, P.B. The day the world nearly died. New Scientist, 133, 1805, p. 51-55.

29. Wignall, P.B. & Hallam, A. Anoxia as a cause of the Permian/Triassic extinction: facies evidence from northern Italy and the western United States. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 93, p. 21-46.

30. Wignall, P.B. New Kimmeridge Clay SSSI. Earth Sciences Conservation, 31, July 1992, p. 24.

31. Wignall, P.B. Anoxia and mass extinctions. Palaios, 7, p. 1-2.

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1993

32. Wignall, P.B. Distinguishing between oxygen and substrate control in fossil benthic assemblages. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 150, p. 193-196.

33. Wignall, P.B. The stratigraphy of the Upper Kimmeridge Clay (Late Jurassic) of Golden Hill, Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 49, p. 207-214.

34. Wignall, P.B. and Hallam, A. Griesbachian (Earliest Triassic) palaeoenvironmental changes in the Salt Range, Pakistan and south-east China and their bearing on the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 102, p. 215-237.

35. Wignall, P.B. & Pickering, K.T. Paleoecology and sedimentology across a Jurassic fault scarp, N.E. Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 150, p. 323-340.

36. Wignall, P.B. & Maynard, J.R. The sequence stratigraphy of transgressive black shales. In: Katz, B.J. & Pratt, L. (editors) Source rocks within a sequence stratigraphic framework. p. 35-47, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology, 37.

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1994

37. Wignall, P.B. Black shales. Geology and Geophysics Monographs, 30. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 130pp.

38. Turner, N., Spinner, E., Spode, F. and Wignall, P.B. Palynostratigraphy of a Carboniferous transgressive systems tract from the earliest Alportian (Namurian) of Britian. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 80, p. 39-54.

39. Wignall, P.B. Mudstone lithofacies in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Wessex Basin, Southern England: implications for the origin and controls of the distribution of mudstones - discussion. Journal of Sedimentary Research, A64, p. 927-929.

40. Wignall, P.B. & Kabrna, P.K. The Carboniferous (Namurian and Westphalian) of the Cliviger Valley, Todmorden. Scrutton, C.T. (editor) Yorkshire rocks and landscape, p. 84-91, Maryport, Ellenbank Press.

41. Wignall, P.B. and Pickering, K.T. Reply to John R. Underhill "Discussion on Palaeoecology and sedimentology across a Jurassic fault scarp, NE Scotland." Journal of the Geological Society of London, 151, p. 730-731.

42. Wignall, P.B. Sequence stratigraphy - applications to basins in Northern England. Journal of Petroleum Geology, 17, p. 243.

43. Wignall, P.B. & Tiratsoo, C. Progress in sequence stratigraphy. Journal of Petroleum Geology, 17, p. 360-361.

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1995

44. Lai X., Yang F., Hallam, A. & Wignall, P.B. The Shangsi section candidate of the Global Stratotype Section & Point (GSSP) of the Permian-Triassic boundary (PTB). Journal of the China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 1995, p. 1-19.

45. Wignall, P.B., Hallam, A., Lai X. & Yang F. Palaeoenvironmental changes across the Permian/Triassic boundary at Shangsi (N. Sichuan, China). Historical Biology, 10, p. 175-189.

46. Allison, P.A., Wignall, P.B., & Brett, C.E. (1995). Palaeo-oxygenation: effects and recognition. In Bosence, D.J.W. & Allison, P.A. (eds) Marine palaeoenviornmental analysis from fossils. p. 97-112, London, Special Publication of the Geological Society, 83.

47. Wignall, P.B. & Chisholm, J.I. Weekend field excursion to the Central Pennines. Mercian Geologist., 13(4), p. 199-201.

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1996

48. Twitchett, R.J. & Wignall, P.B. Trace fossils and the aftermath of the Permo-Triassic mass extinction: evidence from northern Italy. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 124, p. 137-151.

49. Waters, C.N., Maynard, J.R. & Wignall, P.B. New developments in the Late Carboniferous geology of the central Pennines, northern England: a review. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 51, p. 81-86.

50. Wignall, P.B. & Hallam, A. Facies change and the end-Permian mass extinction in S.E. Sichuan, China. Palaios, 11, p. 587-596.

51. Wignall, P.B., Kozur, H. & Hallam, A. On the timing of palaeoenvironmental changes at the Permo-Triassic (P/Tr) boundary using conodont biostratigraphy. Historical Biology, 12, p. 39-62.

52. Wignall, P.B. & Maynard, J.R. High resolution sequence stratigraphy in the early Marsdenian (Namurian, Carboniferous) of the central Pennines and adjacent areas. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 51, p. 127-140.

53. Wignall, P.B., Sutcliffe, O.E., Clemson, J. & Young, E. Unusual shoreface sedimentology in the Late Jurassic of the Boulonnais, northern France. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 66A, p. 577-586.

54. Wignall, P.B. & Twitchett, R.J. Ocean anoxia and the end-Permian mass extinction. Science, 272, p. 1155-1158.

55. Lai X., Yang F., Hallam, A. & Wignall, P.B. The Shangsi section candidate of the Global Stratotype section and point of the Permian-Triassic boundary. In: Yin H. (editor)The Palaeozoic-Mesozoic boundary: candidates of Global p. 113-124. Wuhan, China University of Geosciences Press.

56. Wignall, P.B. & Twitchett, R.J. Late Permian extinctions: response. Science, 274, p. 1552.

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1997

57. Hallam, A. and Wignall, P.B. Mass extinctions and their aftermath. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 330pp.

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1998

58. Wignall, P.B., Morante, R. & Newton, R. The Permo-Triassic transition in Spitsbergen: d13Corg. chemostratigraphy, Fe and S geochemistry, facies, fauna and trace fossils. Geological Magazine, 133, p. 47-62.

59. Wignall, P.B. & Newton, R. Pyrite framboid diameter as a measure of oxygen deficiency in ancient mudrocks. American Journal of Science, 298, p. 537-552.

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1999

60. Wignall, P.B. & Twitchett, R.J.. Unusual intraclastic limestones in Lower Triassic carbonates and their bearing on the aftermath of the end Permian mass extinction. Sedimentology, 46, 303-316.

61. Wignall, P.B. & Benton, M.J. Lazarus taxa and fossil abundances at times of biotic crisis.Journal of the Geological Society of London, 156, 453-456.

62. Hallam, A. & Wignall, P.B. Mass extinctions and sea-level changes. Earth-Science Reviews 48, 217-250.

63. Wignall, P.B. Comment on: Evidence for abrupt latest Permian mass extinction of foraminifera: Results of tests for the Signor-Lipps effect. Geology, 27, 383.

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2000

64. Hallam, A. & Wignall, P.B. Facies change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in Nevada, USA. Journal of the Geological Society, 156, 453-456.

65. Wignall, P.B. & Best, J.L. The Western Irish Namurian Basin Reassessed. Basin Research, 12, 59-78.

66. Hallam, A., Wignall, P.B., Yin J. and Riding, R. An investigation into possible facies changes across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in southern Tibet. Sedimentary Geology, 137, 101-106.

67. Wignall, P.B. The end-Triassic mass extinction. In: Encylcopedia of Life Sciences, Macmillan Reference Ltd (web publication).

68. Wignall, P.B. & Benton, M.J. Reply to Discussion on Lazarus taxa and fossil abundance at times of biotic crisis. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 157, 512.

69. Wignall, P.B. Black shales. P.L. Hancock & B.J. Skinner, (editors) Oxford Companion to the Earth, p.77,Oxford, Oxford University Press.

70. Looy, C.V., Twitchett, R.J., Wignall, P.B., Morante, R. & Visscher, H. Rapid and synchronous collapse of marine and terrestrial ecosystems during the end-Permian mass extinction event. Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 13, 15-24.

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2001

71. Wignall, P.B. Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions. Earth-Science Reviews, 53, 1-33.

72. Twitchett, R.J., Looy, C.V., Morante, R., Visscher, H. & Wignall, P.B. Rapid and synchronous collapse of marine and terrestrial ecosystems during the end-Permian biotic crisis. Geology, 29, 351-354.

73. Fisher, Q.J. & Wignall, P.B. Palaeoenvironmental controls on the uranium distribution in an Upper Carboniferous black shale (Gastrioceras listeri Marine Band) and associated strata, England. Chemical Geology, 175, 605-621.

74. Raiswell, R., Newton, R. & Wignall, P.B. An indicator of water column anoxia: resolution of biofacies variations in the Kimmeridge Clay (Upper Jurassic, U.K.). Journal of Sedimentary Research, 71A, 286-294.

75. Lai X., Wignall, P.B. & Zhang, K. Palaeoecology of the conodonts Hindeodus and Clarkina during the Permian-Triassic transitional period. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 171, 63-72.

76. Wignall, P.B. & Newton, R. Black shales on a basin margin: a model based on examples from the Upper Jurassic of the Boulonnais, northern France. Sedimentary Geology, 144, 335-356.

77. Wignall, P.B. Sedimentology of the Triassic-Jurassic boundary beds in Pinhay Bay (Devon, SW England). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 112, 349-360

78. Wignall, P.B. End Permian extinction. D.E.G.Briggs and P.R. Crowther (editors) Palaeobiology II, Oxford, Blackwells Scientific, 226-229.

79. Racki, G. & Wignall, P.B., Eutrophication by decoupling of the marine biogeochemical cycles of C, N, and P: A mechanism for the Late Devonian mass extinction: Comment and reply. Geology, 29, 469.

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2002

80. Wignall, P.B. & Twitchett, R.J. Extent, duration and nature of the Permian-Triassic superanoxic event. In Koeberl, C. & MacLeod, K. C. (editors), Catastrophic events and mass extinctions: impacts and beyond. Geological Society of America, Special Paper. 356, 395-413.

81. Wignall, P.B. & Twitchett, R.J. Permian-Triassic sedimentology of Jameson Land, east Greenland: incised submarine channels in an anoxic basin. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 159, 691-703.

82. Wignall, P.B. & Best, J.L. Reply to comment on: The Western Irish Namurian Basin reassessed by O.J. Martinsen & J.D. Collinson. Basin Research, 14, 531-542.

83. Sephton, M.A., Amor, K., Franchi, I.A., Wignall, P.B., Newton, R. & Zonneveld, J.-P. Carbon and nitrogen isotope disturbances and an end-Norian (Late Triassic) extinction event. Geology, 30, 1119-1122.

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2003

84. Wignall, P.B. & Newton, R. Contrasting deep-water records from the Upper Permian and Lower Triassic of South Tibet and British Columbia: evidence for a diachronous mass extinction. Palaios. 18, 153-167.

85. Wan X.-Q., Wignall, P.B. & Zhao, W.-J. 2003. The Cenomanian-Turonian extinction and oceanic anoxic event: evidence from South Tibet. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 199 , 283-289.

86. Wignall, P.B., Zonneveld, J.-P. & Sephton, M.A. 2003. Reply to R. Hall & O.Pitaru’s comment on: Sephton, M.A., Amor, K., Franchi, I.A., Wignall, P.B., Newton, R. & Zonneveld, J.-P. 2002. Carbon and nitrogen isotope disturbances and an end- Norian (Late Triassic) extinction event. Geology, 30, 1119-1122; GeologyOnline Forum, e24-e25 [DOI 10.1130/00917613(2003)31<e25:R>2.0CO;2]

87. Wignall, P.B. & Newton, R.J. 2003. Reply to: G.J. Retallack, Comment on: Contrasting deep-water records from the Upper Permian and Lower Triassic of South Tibet and British Columbia: evidence for a diachronous mass extinction. Palaios. 19, 102-104.

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2004

88. Wignall, P.B. 2004. Biotic recovery after mass extinctions. McGraw-Hill 2004 Yearbook ofScience and Technology. McGraw-Hill Professional, New York.

89. Wignall, P.B. 2004. Causes of mass extinctions. In: P. D. Taylor (editor). Extinctions in the history of life. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 119-150.

90. Bond, D., Wignall, P.B. & Racki, G., 2004. Extent and duration of marine anoxia during the Frasnian-Famennian (Late Devonian) mass extinction in Poland, Germany, Austria and France. Geological Magazine, 141, 173-193.

91. Newton, R.J., Pevitt, E.L., Wignall, P.B. & Bottrell, S.H. 2004. Large shifts in the isotopic composition of seawater sulphate across the Permo-Triassic boundary in northern Italy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 218, 331-345.

92. Wignall, P.B. & Best, J.L. 2004. Sedimentology and kinematics of a large, retrogressive growth-fault system in Upper Carboniferous deltaic sediments, western Ireland. Sedimentology, 51/6, 1343-1358.

93. Racki, G., Piechota, A., Bond, D. & Wignall, P.B. 2004. Geochemical and ecological aspects of lower Frasnian pyrite- ammonoid level at Kostomloty (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Geological Quarterly, 48, 267-282.

94. Wignall, P.B., Thomas, B., Willink, R. & Watling, J. 2004. Is Bedout an impact Crater? Take 1. Science, 306, 609.

95. Hallam, A. & Wignall, P.B. 2004. Discussion on sea-level change and facies development across potential Triassic-Jurassic boundary horizons, SW Britain. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 161, 1053-1056.

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2005

96. Wignall, P.B., Newton, R. & Brookfield, M.E. 2005. Pyrite framboid evidence for oxygen-poor deposition during the Permian-Triassic crisis in Kashmir. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 216, 183-188.

97. Kerr, A.C., England, R.W. & Wignall, P.B. 2005. Mantle plumes: physical processes, chemical signatures, biological effects. Lithos, 79 (thematic issue) 3-4.

98. Sephton, M.A., Looy, C.V., Brinkhuis, H., Wignall, P.B., de Leeuw, J.W. & Visscher, H. 2005 Catastrophic soil erosion during the end-Permian crisis. Geology 33, 941-944.

99. Wignall, P.B. 2005. The link between large igneous province eruptions and mass extinctions. Elements, 1, 293-297.

100. Wignall, P.B., Newton, R.A. & Little, C.T.S. 2005. The timing of paleoenvironmental change and cause-and-effect relationships during the Early
Jurassic mass extinction in Europe. American Journal of Sciences, 305, 1014- 1032.

101. Wignall, P.B., Woods, A. & Bottjer, D. 2005. Comment on: Permian-Triassic boundary interval in the Abadeh section of Iran with implications for mass extinction: Part 1. Sedimentology. By Heydari, E. et al. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 217, 315-317.

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2006

102. Wignall, P.B., Hallam, A., Newton, R.J., Sha, J.-G., Reeves, E., Mattioli, E. & Crowley, S. 2006. An eastern Tethyan (Tibetan) record of the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) mass extinction event. Geobiology, 4/3, 179-190.

103.Wignall, P.B., McArthur, J.M., Little, C.T.S. & Hallam, . 2006. Palaeoceanography: Methane release in the Early Jurassic period. Brief Communication Arising. Nature 441, doi: 10.1038/nature04905.

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2007

104. Jiang, H.-S, Lai, X.-L., Luo, G.M., Aldridge, R., Zhang, K.-X. & Wignall, P.B. 2007. Restudy of conodont zonation and evolution across the P/T boundary at Meishan section, Changxing, Zhejiang, China. Global and Planetary Change 55, 39-55.

105. McArthur, J.M. & Wignall, P.B. 2007. Comment on: “Non-uniqueness and interpretation of the seawater 87Sr/86Sr curve” by D.Waltham & D.R. Grocke. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 71, 3382-3386.

106. Ali, J.R. & Wignall, P.B. 2007. Comment on: “Fusuline biotic turnover across the Guadalupian-Lopingian (middle-upper Permian) boundary in mid-oceanic carbonate build-ups: Biostratigraphy of accreted limestone in Japan” by A. Ota and Y. Isozaki. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 30, 199-200.

107. Wignall, P.B., Zonneveld, J-P., Newton, R.J., Amor, K., Sephton, M.A. & Hartley, S. 2007. The end-Triassic mass extinction record of Williston Lake, British Columbia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 253, 385-406.

108. Xie S.-C., Pancost, R.D., Huang, J.-H., Wignall, P.B., Yu, J.-X., Tang, X.-Y., Chen, L., Huang, X.-Y. and Lai X.-L. 2007. Changes in the global carbon cycle accurred as two episodes during the Permian-Triassic crisis. Geology 35, 1083-1086.

109. Wignall, P.B. 2007. The end-Permian mass extinction – how bad did it get? Geobiology 5, 303-309.

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2008

110. Wignall, P.B. & Bond, D.P.G. 2008. The end-Triassic and Early Jurassic mass extinction records in the British Isles. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 119 , 73-84.

111. Luo G-M., Lai X-L., Shi, G.R., Jiang H-S., Yin H-F., Xie S-C., Tong J-N., Zhang K-X., He W-H. & Wignall, P.B. 2008. Size variation of conodont elements of the Hindeodus - Isarcicella clade during the Permian-Triassic transition in South China and its implications for mass extinction. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 264 , 176-187.

112. Bond, D.P.G. & Wignall, P.B. 2008. The role of sea-level change and marine anoxia in the Frasnian-Famennian (Late Devonian) mass extinction. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology , 263 , 107-118.

113. Zaton M,, Marynowski L,, Szczepanik P., Bond D.P.G, & Wignall P.B. 2008. Redox conditions during sedimentation of the Middle Jurassic (Upper Bajocian – Bathonian) clays of the Polish Jura (south-central Poland ): an integrated approach. Facies , DOI 10.1007/s10347-008-0159-z.

114. Lai X-L, Wang W., Wignall, P.B., Bond, D.P.G., Jiang H-S., Ali, J.R., John, E.H. & Sun Y-D. 2008. Palaeoenvironmental change during the end-Guadalupian (Permian) mass extinction in Sichuan , China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 269 , 78-93 .

115. John, E.H., Cliff, R. & Wignall, P.B. 2008. A positive trend in seawater 87Sr/86Sr values over the Early-Middle Frasnian boundary (Late Devonian) recorded in well-preserved conodont elements from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 269 , 168-175.

116. Sun Y-D., Lai X-L., Jiang H-S., Luo G-M., Sun S., Yan C-B., & Wignall, P.B. 2008. Guadalupian (Middle permian) conodont faunas at Shangsi Section , Northeast Sichuan Province. Journal of the China University of Geosciences , 19/5 , 451-460.

117. Luo G-M., Lai X-L., Feng Q-L., Jiang H-S., Wignall, P.B., Zhang K-X., Sun Y-D. & Wu J. 2008. End-Permian conodont fauna from Dongpan section: Correlation between the deep- and shallow-water facies. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences , 51/11 , 1611-1622.

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120. Wignall, P.B., Kershaw, S., Collin, P.-Y., & Crasquin-Soleau, S. 2009. Erosional truncation of uppermost Permian shallow-marine carbonates and implications for Permian-Triassic boundary events: Comment. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 121, 954-956.

121. Wignall, P.B., Sun Y-D., Bond, D.P.G., Izon, G., Newton, R.J., Védrine, S., Widdowson, M., Ali, J.R., Lai X-L., Jiang H-S., Cope, H. & Bottrell, S.H. 2009. Volcanism, mass extinction and carbon sotope fluctuations in the Middle Permian of China. Science, 324, 1179-1182. [Abstract] [Full text]

122. Wignall, P.B., Védrine, S., Bond, D.P.G., Wang W., Lai X-L., Ali, J.R. & Jiang H-S. 2009. Facies analysis and sea-level change at the Guadalupian-Lopingian Global Stratotype (Laibin, South China), and its bearing on the end-Guadalupian mass extinction. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 166.

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