Lopingian

Also known as Lopingian Series, Lopingian Epoch

The Lopingian, informally the Late or Upper Permian, is the uppermost series/last epoch of the Permian, and last epoch of the Paleozoic. The Lopingian was preceded by the Guadalupian and followed by the Early Triassic.

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Geologic timespan.name: Lopingian
Geologic timespan.color: Lopingian
Geologic timespan.time_start: 259.51
Geologic timespan.time_start_uncertainty: 0.21
Geologic timespan.time_end: 251.902
Geologic timespan.time_end_uncertainty: 0.024
Geologic timespan.image_map: Mollweide Paleographic Map of Earth, 255 Ma (Wuchiapingian Age).png
Geologic timespan.caption_map: A map of Earth as it appeared 255 million years ago during the Lopingian Epoch, Wuchiapingian Age
Geologic timespan.timeline: Permian
Geologic timespan.name_formality: Formal
Geologic timespan.synonym1: Late/Upper Permian
Geologic timespan.celestial_body: earth
Geologic timespan.usage: Global (ICS)
Geologic timespan.timescales_used: ICS Time Scale
Geologic timespan.chrono_unit: Epoch
Geologic timespan.strat_unit: Series
Geologic timespan.timespan_formality: Formal
Geologic timespan.lower_boundary_def: FAD of the Conodont Clarkina postbitteri postbitteri

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The name was introduced by Amadeus William Grabau in 1931 and derives from Leping, Jiangxi in China. It consists of two stages/ages. The earlier is the Wuchiapingian and the later is the Changhsingian.