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Wuchiapingian

Wuchiapingian proper noun: a subdivision of the Permian period.

Proper noun

Wuchiapingian

  1. A subdivision of the Permian period.
    • Anoxic/euxinic benthic marine conditions prevailed throughout the middle Wuchiapingian to the early Changhsingian at Shangsi, which persisted for 3.9 Myr (256.974–253.073 Ma). This long-term middle Wuchiapingian-early Changhsingian anoxia event could be correlated both regionally and globally, and...2022 January 11, Li Yuan, “Investigating benthic marine redox conditions from late Permian to earliest Triassic”, in Phys.org, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2022, Earth Sciences

Forms of Wuchiapingian

alternative formWujiapingian

Origin of Wuchiapingian

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 吳家坪 /吴家坪 (Wújiāpíng, literally “Wu Family Flatland”) in Shaanxi Province in China: Wu²-chia¹-pʻing².

Questions about Wuchiapingian

What does Wuchiapingian mean?
Wuchiapingian means a subdivision of the Permian period.
What part of speech is Wuchiapingian?
Wuchiapingian is a proper noun.

Words near Wuchiapingian in the dictionary

  1. Wuchang
  2. wuchereriasis
  3. wuchereriosis
  4. Wuchi
  5. Wuchiang
  6. Wuchiapingian
  7. Wuchih
  8. Wuching
  9. Wuchiu
  10. Wuchou
  11. Wuchow

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