Abstract:
Palynomorph assemblages reflect changes in land plant communities and are thus
significant proxies to interpret palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic changes. The Middle Permian
of the East European Platform is crucial to the understanding of marine and non-marine palaeoclimate
archives and interregional correlations of marine and non-marine successions, utilizing palaeoclimate
signatures documented in the palynological record. New palynological data from the Kazanian
stratotype section are presented and interpreted with respect to palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate.
This dataset will serve as a basis for ongoing studies on the type area of the Kazanian and the mid-
Permian biodiversity patterns, preceding the end-Guadalupian crisis and the changes of the end-
Permian biotic diversification followed by the most severe extinction event in Earth’s history at the
Permian-Triassic boundary.
