The Kasimovian is a

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in the ICS

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. It is the third stage in the Pennsylvanian (late

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), lasting from to Ma.; 2004: ''A Geologic Time Scale 2004'',

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Press. The Kasimovian Stage follows the Moscovian and is followed by the

Gzhelian The Gzhelian ( ) is an age in the ICS geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest stage of the Pennsylvanian, the youngest subsystem of the Carboniferous. The Gzhelian lasted from to Ma. It follows the Kasim ...

. The Kasimovian saw an extinction event which occurred around 305 mya, referred to as the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse. It roughly corresponds to the Missourian in North American geochronology and the Stephanian in western European geochronology.

Name and definition

The Kasimovian is named after the

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n city of

Kasimov Kasimov (russian: Каси́мов; tt-Cyrl, Касыйм;, Ханкирмән,Ханкирмән, Хан-Кермень, means " Khan's fortress" historically Gorodets Meshchyorsky, Novy Nizovoy) is a town in Ryazan Oblast, Russia, located on the ...

. The stage was split from the Moscovian in 1926 by Boris Dan'shin (1891-1941), who gave it the name ''Teguliferina horizon''. The name was posthumously changed in ''Kasimov horizon'' by Dan'shin in 1947. The name Kasimovian was introduced by Georgy Teodorovich in 1949. The base of the Kasimovian Stage is at the base of the

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of ''Obsoletes obsoletes'' and ''Protriticites pseudomontiparus'' or with the first appearance of the

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''Parashumardites''. The top of the stage is close to the first appearances of the fusulinid genera ''Daixina'', ''Jigulites'' and ''Rugosofusulina'' or the first appearance of the conodont '' Streptognathodus zethus''.

Biozones

The Kasimovian is subdivided into three conodont

s: *''

Idiognathodus ''Idiognathodus'' is an extinct conodont genus in the family Idiognathodontidae. Use in stratigraphy The species ''Idiognathodus simulator'' made its first appearance during the Gzhelian, the youngest age of the Pennsylvanian (late Carbonif ...

toretzianus'' Zone *''Idiognathodus sagittatus'' Zone *''Streptognathodus excelsus'' and ''Streptognathodus makhlinae'' Zone

References

Literature

*; 1947: ''Geology and Mineral Resources of Moscow and its Surroundings'', Izdat. Moskov. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Moscow, 308 pp. . *; 2006: ''Global time scale and regional stratigraphic reference scales of Central and West Europe, East Europe, Tethys, South China, and North America as used in the Devonian–Carboniferous–Permian Correlation Chart 2003 (DCP 2003)'', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 240(1-2): pp 318–372. *

External links

Carboniferous timescale
at the website of the Norwegian network of offshore records of geology and stratigraphy

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