Marine bivalves as indicators of climatic changes in the Permian of Northeast Asia

A.S. Biakov

N.A. Shilo North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, 68500 Russia

Northeastern State University, Magadan, 685000 Russia

E-mail: abiakov@mail.ru

Received April 29, 2020

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DOI: 10.26907/2542-064X.2020.2.205-217

For citation: Biakov A.S. Marine bivalves as indicators of climatic changes in the Permian of Northeast Asia. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Estestvennye Nauki, 2020, vol. 162, no. 2, pp. 205–217. doi: 10.26907/2542-064X.2020.2.205-217. (In Russian)

Abstract

Climatic reconstruction of the past is one of the most important areas of research in modern geology and related scientific fields. This is especially true for the Late Paleozoic, during which dramatic climatic changes occurred, in many respects reminiscent of the Late Quaternary and the modern ones. This paper discusses the possibility of using marine bivalves as indicators of climatic changes in the Permian of Northeast Asia. Based on the analysis of the confinement of the genera of Permian bivalves and their modern analogues to certain biochores, tropical, thermophilic, and moderately thermophilic (low-Boreal) and cold-loving (high-Boreal) taxa of the genus rank were identified. The dynamics of bivalve species diversity was used as an additional criterion for recognizing climatic changes in the Permian of Northeast Asia. It was shown that, in general, the temperature conditions were quite favorable for the fauna in the region. In the Early Permian, the Gondwanan glaciation apparently did not affect the composition of bivalve communities. A sharp depletion of benthonic communities dominated by Inoceramus-like bivalves took place in the second half of the Roadian – during the beginning of the Wordian. At least two more episodes of cold snap were established at the beginning and end of the Capitanian. In the Late Wuchiapingian and Late Changhsingian, warming episodes were recorded, which is confirmed by the invasions of a number of tropical taxa into the basins of Northeast Asia and by the paleotemperature determinations. It was concluded that marine bivalves serve as a good indicator of climatic changes and can be successfully used for their reconstruction, in particular, for the Permian of Northeast Asia. The results obtained are of great importance for paleoclimatic reconstructions.

Keywords: marine bivalves, paleoclimatic reconstructions, Northeast Asia, Permian

Acknowledgements. The study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 20-05-00604). Paleoclimatic conclusions were made with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 19-17-00178).

Figure Captions

Fig. 1. Changes in the biodiversity of bivalves in Northeast Asia and climatic changes during the Permian (according to [35], with revisions and additions). MSSh –International Stratigraphic Scale, VESSh – East European (General) Stratigraphic Scale, RSSh – Regional Stratigraphic Scale. The black arrows indicate extinction events.

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