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The sauropodomorph biostratigraphy of the Elliot Formation of southern Africa: Tracking the evolution of Sauropodomorpha across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2017
The latest Triassic is notable for coinciding with the dramatic decline of many previously dominant groups, followed by the rapid radiation of Dinosauria in the Early Jurassic.
Blair W. McPhee, Emese M. Bordy, Lara Sciscio, Jonah N. Choiniere   +3 more
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Understanding the provenance and depositional conditions of Triassic sedimentary rocks from the Spiti region, Tethys Himalaya, India

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, 2023
The Spiti region, renowned as the Museum of Indian Geology, is a world-famous sedimentary succession containing well-exposed sequences from Neoproterozoic to Cretaceous age. In this study, Triassic siliciclastic sedimentary rocks of the Lilang Supergroup
Javid A. Ganai, Shaik A. Rashid, Abdul Samad Siddiqui, Nurul Absar, Heena, Ghulam Jeelani   +5 more
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Comparative cranial biomechanics reveal macroevolutionary trends in theropod dinosaurs, with emphasis on Tyrannosauroidea

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Tyrannosaurus is viewed as a model organism in vertebrate paleontology, with numerous studies analyzing its feeding biomechanics. Nonetheless, the evolution of this feeding performance has been under‐addressed in Tyrannosauroidea, especially in basal tyrannosauroids. Here we used muscle‐force reconstruction and finite element analysis (FEA) to
Evan Johnson‐Ransom, Paul Gignac, Daniel E. Barta, Ryan N. Felice, Eric Snively   +4 more
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The ecology and geography of temnospondyl recovery after the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

Royal Society Open Science
One of the mysteries of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction was the subsequent success of temnospondyls. Temnospondyls were key early tetrapods in the Carboniferous and Permian and hardly seem to be ideal pioneers in a tough post-extinction world.
Aamir Mehmood, Suresh A. Singh, Armin Elsler, Michael J. Benton   +3 more
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A second species of non‐crocodyliform crocodylomorph from the Late Triassic fissure deposits of southwestern UK: Implications for locomotory ecological diversity in Saltoposuchidae

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Late Triassic–Early Jurassic fissures of the Bristol Channel area (southwest England and south Wales) are renowned for their diverse vertebrate faunas. These assemblages have yielded an array of predominantly small‐bodied forms that are crucial to our understanding of the early evolution of several major tetrapod clades.
Ewan H. Bodenham, Stephan N. F. Spiekman, Susannah C. R. Maidment, Paul Upchurch, Philip D. Mannion   +4 more
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On the age of Early Triassic Tupilakosaurus fauna of Eastern Europe

Известия высших учебных заведений: Геология и разведка, 2015
The composition of Tupilakosaurus fauna is adjusted. Land tetrapod assemblage from the Upper Sukhorechka Subsuite of the Buzuluk Depression is excluded from the fauna.
I. V. Novikov
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Redescription of the Triassic cynodont Cistecynodon parvus and reassessment of its phylogeny

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Cynodontia is an important subclade of Therapsida that first occurred in the late Permian. It includes extinct subclades which are the non‐mammaliaform cynodonts and Mammaliaformes, with the latter ultimately giving rise to crown mammals. The systematics of non‐mammaliaform cynodonts has been extensively studied and is relatively well‐resolved,
Erin S. Lund, Frederik P. Wolvaardt, Roger M. H. Smith, Jaganmoy Jodder, Julien Benoit   +4 more
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Widespread distribution of large silesaurids evidenced by a new record from the Middle Triassic of southwest Gondwana

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
The largest silesaurid known from South America is described here, demonstrating that silesaurids reached large body sizes in southwestern Gondwana. This discovery further underscores the widespread geographic distribution and temporal persistence of large silesaurids across Pangea, despite faunal turnovers and environmental events such as the Carnian ...
Rodrigo Temp Müller
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OLENEKIAN TO EARLY LADINIAN STRATIGRAPHY OF THE WESTERN PART OF THE AGHDARBAND WINDOW (KOPEH-DAG, NE IRAN)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2018
The structural setting and the stratigraphy of the Early to Middle Triassic sedimentary succession exposed in the western part of the Aghdarband window (Kopeh Dag, NE Iran) is described. Six stratigraphic sections in the Sefid-Kuh Limestone, Nazar-Kardeh
MARCO BALINI, ALDA NICORA, STEFANO ZANCHETTA, ANDREA ZANCHI, RUBEN MARCHESI, IRENE VUOLO, MARYAM HOSSEINIYOON, MEHDI NOROUZI, SARA SOLEIMANI   +8 more
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Working with laws, regularities and singularities in biology: The evolution of mammalian red blood cell size as a case study

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Phylogenetic comparative methods have been used in recent literature to work with laws and test for regularities (evolutionary associations of quantitative features) and evolutionary singularities (features that evolved in a single taxon). We analyzed these uses epistemologically, taking the evolution of red‐blood‐cell mean corpuscular volume (
Jorge Cubo, Paul Aubier, Cassandra Cheyron, Isabelle Drouet   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source