Permian

Timeline

Carboniferous ← Permian | Jurassic

Before 1900

Prehistoric eras: Precambrian • Carboniferous • Permian • Jurassic • Cretaceous

BCE: Last Ice Age • 30,000 • 8000 • 1100 • 218

CE: 79 • 1274 • 1348 • 1502 • 1588 • 1605 • 1749 • 1850 • 1853 • 1898

1900-1999

1900-1929: 1906 • 1908 • 1912 • 1915 • 1917 • 1918 • 1920 • 1922 • 1923 • 1925 • 1926 • 1927 • 1928 • 1929

'30s: 1930 • 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 • 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939

'40s: 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949

'50s: 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959

'60s: 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969

'70s: 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979

'80s: 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989

'90s: 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999

2000-present

'00s: 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009

'10s: 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019

'20s: 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024 • 2025

Future

2026 • 2027 • 2028 • 2029 • 2030 • 2048 • 2097 • 2204 • 22,000

The Permian is a geologic period of Earth's history spanning 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period 298.8 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It was the final period of the Paleozoic Era.

In the real world

• During this period, major evolution events took place, giving rise to the ancestors of mammals and dinosaurs.
• The Capitanian mass extinction event occurs around 260 Mya. Griffinflies (the real-life inspirations for Toho's Meganulon, Meganula, and Megaguirus) die out totally around this time. Several other groups of organisms also become completely extinct.
• The Permian ends with the Permian–Triassic extinction event, also known as the "Great Dying". It is the worst mass extinction in Earth's history, killing roughly 90% of all species on the planet. The most widely accepted theory for the cause of this extinction is the eruption of the Siberian Traps.
  • Trilobites are among the many animals wiped out amid this extinction event.

In fiction

• Various tetrapods inhabit continental waters. Some of them have specific features, such as a wide head. Their descendant, Inoculopalus from Skull Island, will remain largely unchanged in the 20th century. (The World of Kong)
  • Several primitive synapsids ("pelycosaurs") evolve dorsal sails that help them stay warm on cool mornings. This feature will be preserved in their carnivorous descendant, Malevolusaurus. (The World of Kong)
• Godzilla and other enormous organisms, some strongly resembling him, are forced into the deep sea and underground after the P-T extinction event reduces Earth's atmospheric radiation. (Godzilla (2014))
  • A Shinomura looking for food unknowingly lands near Godzilla and begins eating a large marine creature before being blasted by Godzilla's atomic breath. A piece of Shinomura falls down a crevice and lay dormant until 1945. Just then, a meteor collides with Earth, diminishing the atmospheric radiation and forcing large creatures that fed on radiation, like Godzilla and the MUTOs, to look for it near the Earth's core deep underground or underwater. (Godzilla: Awakening)

Gallery

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  Godzilla was an apex predator during the Permian Period (Godzilla: Awakening)

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  The Permian impact (Godzilla: Awakening)

References

This is a list of references for Permian. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

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