page_title: Capitanian
section_title: †Trilobites
hierarchical_section_title: Capitanian / Capitanian Life / Arthropods / †Trilobites
caption_attribution_description: English: Reconstruction of the proetid trilobite, Endops yanagisamai, of Middle Permian Japan.
context_page_description: 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 265.1 and 259.1 million years ago. It was preceded by the Wordian and followed by the Wuchiapingian.
  A significant mass extinction event occurred at the end of this stage, which was associated with anoxia and acidification in the oceans and possibly caused by the volcanic eruptions that produced the Emeishan Traps. This extinction event may be related to the much larger Permian–Triassic extinction event that followed about 10 million years later.
caption: Endops
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