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Sakmarian Stage, second of the four stages of the Early Permian (Cisuralian) Epoch, encompassing all rocks deposited during the Sakmarian Age (295.5 million to 290.1 million years ago) of the Permian Period. Rocks deposited during the Sakmarian were marine sandstones, siltstones, shales, and limestones, interbedded with minor, thin conglomerates. Most were deposited as lateral sedimentary facies to one another. Conglomerates and sandstones belonging to this stage occur on the western flanks of the Ural Mountains in central Russia and may reach a thickness of more than 1,000 metres (3,300 feet). The base of the Sakmarian is marked by the first appearance of the conodont (primitive chordate with tooth-shaped fossil remains) Sweetognathus merrilli. The Sakmarian Stage overlies the Asselian Stage and is in turn overlain by the Artinskian Stage.

June R.P. Ross Charles A. Ross