Permian Period: Quick Facts

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Permian paleogeography

A detailed geologic time scale chart displaying Earth's history from the Hadean Eon over 4.5 billion years ago to the present, organized by eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages with color-coded columns and corresponding dates in millions of years.

Paleogeographic map depicting the arrangement of continents during the Late Carboniferous and Early Permian periods, with a large shaded area showing the extent of the Permo-Carboniferous ice sheet around the ancient South Pole. Arrows indicate the direction of ice sheet movement, and dashed lines outline the ice sheet boundary. The map illustrates continental drift and plate tectonics concepts.

A geologic time scale chart showing the Permian period of the Paleozoic era, divided into Cisuralian, Guadalupian, and Lopingian epochs with their corresponding ages and millions of years ago.

marine evaporite deposition

Pensacola Mountains

Illustration of a Dimetrodon, an extinct pelycosaur, showing a reptile-like animal with a large, sail-like fin on its back, squat legs, and a long tail. A scale bar in the corner indicates size.

Illustration of the extinct Edaphosaurus, a pelycosaur, showing a reptile-like animal with a large, sail-like fin on its back, squat limbs, and a long tail. A scale bar indicates size.

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captorhinomorph Late Permian Epoch Early Permian Epoch Guadalupian Epoch Dictyoclostus Kazanian Stage Ochoan Stage Ufimian Stage Guadalupian Series Leonardian Stage Silurian Period Devonian Period Cambrian Period Ordovician Period Carboniferous Period

Key People

Brøgger, Waldemar Christofer

Waldemar Christofer Brøgger

Norwegian geologist