What life was present?

Follow the links on this page to get a brief description of the orders of organism present during the Permian, and how they were affected by the extinction event leading into the Triassic.
The different orders of metazoans were affected differently by the extinction event, from those which suffered complete extinction, through those which scraped through to the Triassic but took on new mesozoic forms, to a few species which passed through the extinction seemingly unaffected.

What survived? Why did it survive? And what can this tell us about the extinction event?

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