To provide basic information on the End-Permian Extinction of tabulate corals, we examined their taxonomic characters and stratigraphic distributions using the material from the Permian-Tri-assic boundary section at Kuh-e-Ali Bashi of the Julfa area, Northwest Iran. The results are as follows: pyrgiid auloporid Cladochonus sp. indet. from the Roadian? to Wordian (lower middle? to middle middle Permian) Gnishik and the Capitanian (upper middle Permian) Khachik formations; favositid Suther-landia khachikensis sp. nov. and micheliniid Protomichelinia favositoides from the Khachik Formation; micheliniid Julfamichelinia allata from the Wuchiapingian (lower upper Permian) Julfa Formation; and micheliniid Michelinia vesiculosa from the Changhsingian (upper upper Permian) Ali Bashi Formation. Julfamichelinia is a new genus proposed herein. In this stratigraphic section, auloporid and favositid corals disappeared near the Capitanian/Wuchiapingian transition. The latest appearance of the only surviving micheliniid is approximately 4 m below the Permian-Triassic boundary.

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