Environmental instability prior to end-Permian mass extinction reflected in biotic and facies changes on shallow carbonate platforms of the Nanpanjiang Basin (South China)

Shallow carbonate platforms exhibit major changes in faunal composition and facies types during the latest Permian and earliest Triassic. Although the microbialites that developed following the latest Permian mass extinction (LPME) have attracted wide attention, temporal variations in shallow-platform facies and faunas prior to the LPME have been less thoroughly studied. Here, we analyze diversity patterns and variation in skeletal composition...