Contents Notes from the SPS Secretary ...........................................................................................................................1 Shen Shuzhong Notes from the SPS Chair ..................................................................................................................................2 Charles M. Henderson Meeting Report: Report on the Continental Siena Meeting, Italy, September 2006.....................................3 G. Cassinis, A. Lazzarotto, P. Pittau Working Group Report: Short report on 2005-2006 activities of the non-marine – marine correlation work- ing group of SPS ..................................................................................................................................................5 J.W. Schneider Report of SPS Working Group on “Using Permian transitional biotas as gateways for global correlation”7 Guang R. Shi International Permian Time Scale ...................................................................................................................10 Voting Members of the SPS ............................................................................................................................. 11 Submission guideline for Issue 49 ....................................................................................................................12 Reports: Ostracods (Crustacea) from the Permian-Triassic boundary interval of South China (Huaying Mountains, eastern Sichuan Province): paleo-oxygenation significance .......................................................12 Sylvie Crasquin-Soleau, Steve Kershaw Paleobiogeographical and biostratigraphical analysis of the Kazanian (Middle Permian) conodonts of the east Russian Platform-preliminary results ......................................................................................................15 Andrey V. Zhuravlev, Galina V. Kotlyar, Sergey B. Shishlov Multielement definition of Jinogondolella Mei and Wardlaw .......................................................................20 Lance Lambert, Bruce Wardlaw, Charles Henderson Multielement definition of Clarkina Kozur .....................................................................................................23 Charles Henderson, Bruce Wardlaw, Lance Lambert Understanding climate change during the final stages of Late Paleozoic Gondwanan glaciation - An inte- grated data-model study ...................................................................................................................................25 Isabel Montañez, Vladimir Davydov, Chris Poulsen, Mark Schmitz, Joerg Schneider, Neil Tabor Discovery of the Middle Permian carbonate deposits in the Gyainyima area of Burang County, southwest- ern Tibet, China ................................................................................................................................................26 Zhang Yichun, Li Wenzhong , Cao Changqun , Shen Shuzhong In Memorial: In memory of Professor Jin Yugan (1937-2006): An inspirational leader of paleontology and Permian stratigraphy ........................................................................................................................................28 Shen Shuzhong, Miao Desui, Wang Xiangdong In memory of Professor Jin Yugan (1937-2006): A colleague, collaborator and friend to many ...................31 Doug Erwin In Memorial: In memory of Dr. Gennady Kanev (1941 - 2006) .....................................................................32 Tatjana Grunt, Nina Koloda, Lena Malysheva, Evgeny Suxov Announcements: First Circular for XVI ICCP meeting in Nanjing, June 21-24, 2007 (updated ) ................33 Announcements: Itinerary for Cisuralian Workshop in 2007 .........................................................................36 Anouncement: Neil W. Archbold Memorial Symposium, Nov. 24, 2006........................................................37 Explanation of Cover: 1. Young Jin Yugan, photo taken in 1959 in Nanjing. 2. Logo of the ICCP 2007. A workshop on the Meishan Core in memory of Lao Jin will be held in the conference. 3. Picture taken outside the Geology Department at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas in May, 1981. Jin Yugan was the first Chinese colleague that went in the field with Dick Grant and a then, bearded Bruce Wardlaw. 4. Jin and his wife, Li Manying, visited Melbourne, Australia in 1998. 5. Jin sitting on the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary at the Penglaitan section in Laibin, China. This section has been formally ratified as the GSSP section of the Lopingian-base boundary. Jin led the Working Group. 6. From left: Shen Shuzhong, Sam Bowring, Jin Yugan and Charles Henderson are looking at PTB samples in the Core Chamber of Nanjing Institute on Oct. 9, 2004. 7. From left: Jam Crowley, Doug Erwin, Jin Yugan, Sam Bowring, Shen Shuzhong, Wang Xiangdong and Zhu Guoping are working at the Meishan Section on Oct. 14, 2003. Permophiles Issue #48 December 2006 EXECUTIVE NOTES Notes from the SPS Secretary business meetings for SPS, the cancellation of the Cisuralian Workshop in 2006 and the forthcoming XVI International Congress Shen Shuzhong on the Carboniferous and Permian will be held at Nanjing between June 21-24, 2007 (see an uodated circular in this issue). After the Introduction and thanks business meeting, all the attending members went to a restaurant to have dinner together. The individuals in attendance at this I want to thank Giuseppe Cassinis, Vladimir Davydov, Doug meeting included SPS Chairman Charles Henderson and SPS Erwin, Tatiana Grunt, Charles Henderson, Lance Lambert, Desui Secretary Shen Shuzhong. Other participants were Lucia Angiolini, Miao, Guang R. Shi, J.W. Schneider, Sylvie Crasquin-Soleau, Aymon Baud, Sam Bowring, Monica Campi, Sylvia Crasquin- Wang Xiang-dong , Bruce Wardlaw, Zhang Yi-chun and Andrey Soleau, Yukio Isozaki, Roger Pierson, J.W. Schneider, Guang R. Zhuravlev who contributed articles, reports or notes for inclusion Shi, Wang Wei, Liz Weldon, Wang Xiangdong and Wang Yue. in this 48th issue of Permophiles. I also thank Charles Henderson for his hospitality when I am in Calgary; we did all of the editorial 2) An SPS meeting was held in Siena, Italy, in conjunction with the work for this issue during 5 days from October 27th to November Field Conference on the Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography of 1st immediately after the annual meeting of the Geological Society late- and post-Hercynian basins in the Southern Alps, Tuscany of America. We thank Charles A. Ross, June R.P. Ross, Gregory and Sardinia, and comparisons with other Western Mediterranean P. Wahlman, Gray, D. Johnson, Hisayoshi Igo, Sittig Eberhard, areas and geodynamic hypotheses, between September 18-23, 2006. Broutin Jean, Ernest H. Gilmour, Alfredo Arche, Tom Yancey, G. Cassinis, A. Lazzarotto and P. Pittau provided a detailed report Peter, J. Jones, Carmen Virgili, Karl Krainer, Doug Erwin, Helmut for the field Conference in this issue (see Page 3). Wopfner, Mark Durand, Giuseppe Cassinis for financial contributions to this year’s Permophiles and remind our readers 3) Charles Henderson, Vladimir Davydov and I met together during that despite the fact that we have gone mostly electronic there the GSA meeting held in Philadelphia, USA and discussed recent are still costs involved in printing and mailing a limited number of progress and future plans for SPS. The Cisuralian Workshop, which copies. All of the previous issues of Permophiles can be freely was cancelled last year, is planned for next year (see details downloaded at http://www.nigpas.ac.cn/permian/web/index.asp. provided by Vladimir Davydov in this issue). We also agreed that All members are welcome to visit our website, download all the Permian GSSPs should be completed before the end of 2008 Permophiles and join in the PermoForum to discuss Permian and the correlation between the marine and non-marine sequences issues. must be emphasized during the forthcoming years by the SPS. This issue of Permophiles: In memory of Prof. Jin Yugan The XVI ICCP meeting in Nanjing, 2007 and Future SPS Meeting This issue of Permophiles is dedicated to the memory of An SPS business meeting will be held in conjunction with the Professor Jin Yugan. He is also known to many as “Lao Jin”. He XVI International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian that passed away in a Nanjing hospital on June 26th, 2006. His untimely will be held at Nanjing between June 21- 24, 2007 (see the logo on death was a grievous loss for many of us. The Permian research the cover and updated circular in this issue). This conference is community lost an inspirational leader. It is Professor Jin that sponsored by Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Natural resolved the century-long controversies over the traditional Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology, divisions and correlations of Permian. He proposed to use the China, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, The International Russian, American and Chinese Permian classifications and Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy and The correlations as a protocol and finally came up with a new three- International Subcommission on Permian Stratigraphy. Prof. Wang fold Permian timescale that was published in 1997 (Episodes, vol. Xiangdong and I co-chair the Organizing Committee of the 20, no. 1, p. 10-15) to replace the traditional two-fold scale. Drs. conference. We warmly welcome our colleagues all over the world Miao Desui of Kansas University, Wang Xiang-dong