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ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL Data for the article, Recovery from the most profound mass extinction of all time by Sarda Sahney and Michael J. Benton.
DATA A list of localities used in this study. A complete list of all species found at each
locality can be found at http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Sahney/pub/index.html.
Cisuralian (Early Permian) Guadalupian (Mid Permian) Lopingian (Late Permian) Arroyo Inta Amanakskaya Svita Belle Plains Modderdrift Bolshekinelskaya Svita Clyde Abrahamskraal Hoeksplaas Chickasha Belebey Isheyevo Ezhovo/Ocher Leeukloof La-de-da Lower Kotel'nich Malokinelskaya Svita Mezen North Dvina Kundaram Ferndale, NSW, Australia Kulchumovskaya Svita Kutulukskaya Svita Purly-Vyazniki Ruhuhu Valley - Kawinga Sokolki Early Triassic Middle Triassic Carnian Barendskraal Coton End Quarry Argana Corridor Damodar River Donguz River East of Sakaraha Diego Basin Gordon Valley Kalgary Eastern Greenland Holbrook Moray Erskine Range Pranhita-Godavari Valley - Pranhita-Godavari Valley - Hobart Yerrapalli Lower Maleri Lootsberg Pass Ruhuhu Valley - Manda Pranhita-Godavari Valley - Sorochinsk Satpura Upper Maleri The Crater Sidmouth Rio Grande do Sul Transarctic Mountains Winnaarsbaken Valle de la Luna Bamboeshoek Valley-Lower Xiqinshi Burgersdorp Baden-Württemberg Bamboeshoek Valley-Upper Chiniqua Burgersdorp La Rioja Bogdanovka Ural River Buzuluk Kurmanajevka Orenburg Thuringen - Middle Buntsandstein Thuringen - Upper Buntsandstein 2
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