Summary of Early Triassic carbon isotope records
Much attention has been given to the negative δ13C anomaly nearly coincident with the Permian-Triassic boundary. New data indicate a stepwise decline in δ13C initiating before the Latest Permian extinction event followed by highly variable δ13C values during the remaining Early Triassic. δ13C values appear much less erratic as global metazoan diversity increased in the Middle Triassic. Given the p
