Книга: Permian: Permic Languages, Geologic Time Scale, Amniote, List of Fossil Sites, Permian Tetrapods, Fungus, Arthropod, Pangaea, Lycopodiophyta, Lepidodendron

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Permian is a geologic period and system characterized among land vertebrates by the diversification of the early amniotes into the ancestral groups of the mammals, turtles, lepidosaurs and archosaurs. The Permian period follows the Carboniferous and extends from 299.0 ± 0.8 to 251.0 ± 0.4 Ma (million years before the present). It is the last period of the Paleozoic Era and famous for its ending epoch event, the largest mass extinction known to science. The Permian period was named after the kingdom of Permia in modern-day Russia by Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison in 1841 (not the city of Perm, as commonly misconstrued).