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Capitanian: Events, Stratigraphy & Overview

In the geologic timescale, the Capitanian is an age or stage of the Permian. It is also the uppermost or latest of three subdivisions of the Guadalupian Epoch or Series. The Capitanian lasted between 264.28 and 259.857 million years ago. It was preceded by the Wordian and followed by the Wuchiapingian.

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Capitanian topic overview

The analysis highlights Events, Stratigraphy and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Capitanian.

Related topics
38
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
43
Extracted relationships
45
Related term clusters
21
Bridge connections
43

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 14 topics
Stratigraphy · 12 topics
Events · 8 topics
Capitanian life · 2 topics
Notable formations · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Celestial body
Earth
Chronological unit
Age
Lower boundary definition
FAD of the Conodont Jinogondolella postserrata
Lower GSSP ratified
2001
Name formality
Formal
Regional usage
Global (ICS)

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Overview

Stratigraphy

Capitanian life

Notable formations

Events

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Capitanian connects Entity context

The extracted context around Capitanian shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Capitanian → Capitan Reef, George Burr Richardson, Guadalupe Mountains, Guadalupian, ICS, Texas, The Capitanian, The Capitanian Stage, United States, US Another extracted example is Capitanian → Capitanian Stage, Clarkina, Guadalupe Mountains, Jinogondolella, Lopingian, Nipple Hill, Texas, Wuchiapingian. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Capitanian

Top relations

related to Stratigraphy · 10
Capitanian → Capitan Reef, George Burr Richardson, Guadalupe Mountains, Guadalupian, ICS, Texas, The Capitanian, The Capitanian Stage, United States, US
related to Definitions · 8
Capitanian → Capitanian Stage, Clarkina, Guadalupe Mountains, Jinogondolella, Lopingian, Nipple Hill, Texas, Wuchiapingian
related to Capitanian life · 6
Capitanian → Global, Guadalupian, Olson’s Extinction, Roadian, Wordian, Wuchiapingian
related to Biostratigraphy · 4
Capitanian → Clarkina, Jinogondolella, The Capitanian, Timorites
related to Events · 4
Capitanian → Alatoconchidae, Carbon, Verbeekninidae, Waagenophyllidae
Celestial body · 1
Capitanian → Earth
Chronological unit · 1
Capitanian → Age
Lower boundary definition · 1
Capitanian → FAD of the Conodont Jinogondolella postserrata
Lower GSSP ratified · 1
Capitanian → 2001
Name formality · 1
Capitanian → Formal

Important terminology

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Important terminology

stage extinction event years permian ics wuchiapingian stratigraphic ago conodont texas million wordian age mass guadalupian regional global jinogondolella clarkina

Capitanian relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 45 structured relationships around Capitanian. Examples in this analysis include Capitanian → Celestial body → Earth and Capitanian → Chronological unit → Age. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
CapitanianCelestial bodyEarth1.00infobox
CapitanianChronological unitAge1.00infobox
CapitanianLower boundary definitionFAD of the Conodont Jinogondolella postserrata1.00infobox
CapitanianLower GSSP ratified20011.00infobox
CapitanianName formalityFormal1.00infobox
CapitanianRegional usageGlobal (ICS)1.00infobox
CapitanianStratigraphic unitStage1.00infobox
CapitanianTime scale(s) usedICS Time Scale1.00infobox
CapitanianTime span formalityFormal1.00infobox
CapitanianUpper boundary definitionFAD of the Conodont Clarkina postbitteri postbitteri1.00infobox
CapitanianUpper boundary GSSPPenglaitan Section, Laibin, Guangxi, China 23°41′43″N 109°19′16″E / 23.6953°N 109.3211°E / 23.6953; 109.32111.00infobox
CapitanianUpper GSSP ratified20041.00infobox
Capitanianis aage or stage of the Permian0.90text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Capitanian bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Stage, Stratigraphic and Ago. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • a significant mass extinction event
    • Event
    • Extinction
    • Caused
    • End-capitanian
    • Larger
    • Mass
    • Permian
    • Years
    • Ics
    • Roadian
    • Million
    • Wordian
  • permian–triassic extinction event
    • Event
    • Extinction
    • Caused
    • End-capitanian
    • Larger
    • Mass
    • Years
    • Permian
    • Million
    • Ago
    • Roadian
    • Ics
  • Capitanian
    • Stage
    • Stratigraphic
    • Ago
    • Conodont
    • Ics
    • Years
    • Clarkina
    • Jinogondolella
    • Lower
    • Postbitteri
    • Postserrata
    • Permian
  • capitanian
    • Stage
    • Stratigraphic
    • Ago
    • Conodont
    • Ics
    • Years
    • Clarkina
    • Jinogondolella
    • Lower
    • Postbitteri
    • Postserrata
    • Permian
  • conodont
    • Clarkina
    • Jinogondolella
    • Postbitteri
    • Postserrata
    • Species
    • Stratigraphic
    • Earth
    • Roadian
    • Series
    • Stage
    • Guadalupe
    • Guadalupian
  • clarkina
    • Postbitteri
    • Conodont
    • Jinogondolella
    • Postserrata
    • Species
    • Stratigraphic
    • Earth
    • Roadian
    • Series
    • Guadalupe
    • Guadalupian
    • Larger
  • capitanian life
    • Stage
    • Stratigraphic
    • Ago
    • Conodont
    • Ics
    • Years
    • Clarkina
    • Jinogondolella
    • Lower
    • Postbitteri
    • Postserrata
    • Permian
  • olson’s extinction
    • Event
    • End-capitanian
    • Larger
    • Mass
    • Permian
    • Years
    • Roadian
    • Caused
    • Million
    • Wordian
    • Species
    • Ics

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Capitanian, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Capitanian with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Capitanian — Overview · splits 29 ⟂ 15
Capitanian — Stratigraphy · splits 31 ⟂ 13
Capitanian — Events · splits 35 ⟂ 9
Capitanian — Capitanian life · splits 41 ⟂ 3
Capitanian — Notable formations · splits 41 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Capitanian

Nodes44
Edges43
Triples45
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.045455
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Capitanian to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Events, Stratigraphy & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Capitanian · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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