Evidence for multi-rifting in the Variscan–Alpine cycle transition: insights from the European western Southern Alps [PDF]
Solid EarthWe investigate the transition between the Paleozoic Variscan cycle and the Mesozoic–Cenozoic Alpine supercontinent cycle, both of which have played a pivotal role in shaping the central European–Mediterranean plate architecture.
E. Scaramuzzo +3 more
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A new stem group echinoid from the Triassic of China leads to a revised macroevolutionary history of echinoids during the end-Permian mass extinction [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 The Permian–Triassic bottleneck has long been thought to have drastically altered the course of echinoid evolution, with the extinction of the entire echinoid stem group having taken place during the end-Permian mass extinction. The Early Triassic fossil
Jeffrey R. Thompson +8 more
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The Early Evolution of Rhynchosaurs [PDF]
, 2016 The rhynchosaurian archosauromorphs are an important and diverse group of fossil tetrapods that first appeared during the Early Triassic and probably became extinct during the early Late Triassic (early Norian).
Butler, Richard J. +2 more
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Triassic sandstone petrology of Tasmania: evidence for a Tasmania-Transantarctic basin [PDF]
, 1990 Similar fluvial sequences of Triassic age occur in Tasmania and the Transantarctic Mountains of Victoria Land. The Tasmanian reference section at Poatina consists of Lower Triassic quartzose fluvial sandstones overlain by Middle and Upper Triassic ...
Collinson, JW, Eggert, JT, Kemp, NR
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Widespread Grylloblattid Insects After the End-Permian Mass Extinction
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) led to a severe terrestrial ecosystem collapse. However, the ecological response of insects to the EPME remains poorly understood.
Qianqi Zhang +5 more
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Provenance history of a Late Triassic-Jurassic Gondwana margin forearc basin, Murihiku Terrane, North Island, New Zealand: petrographic and geochemical constraints [PDF]
, 2004 The Murihiku Terrane in the North Island was a forearc basin adjacent to a volcanic arc along the eastern margin of Gondwana during the Mesozoic. The rocks that infill the basin are mainly volcaniclastic sandstones and mudstones, often turbiditic, with ...
Briggs, Roger M. +2 more
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Neck elongation has appeared independently in several tetrapod groups, including giraffes and sauropod dinosaurs on land, birds and pterosaurs in the air, and sauropterygians (plesiosaurs and relatives) in the oceans.
Qi-Ling Liu +6 more
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The fossil record of early tetrapods: worker effort and the end-Permian mass extinction [PDF]
, 2010 It is important to understand the quality of the fossil record of early tetrapods (Tetrapoda, minus Lissamphibia and Amniota) because of their key role in the transition of vertebrates from water to land, their dominance of terrestrial faunas for over ...
Bebber D.F. +18 more
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The oldest dinosaur? A Middle Triassic dinosauriform from Tanzania [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2013 The rise of dinosaurs was a major event in vertebrate history, but the timing of the origin and early diversification of the group remain poorly constrained. Here, we describe Nyasasaurus parringtoni gen. et sp. nov., which is identified as either the earliest known member of, or the sister–taxon to, Dinosauria.
Sterling J, Nesbitt +4 more
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Geologia Croatica, 2010 The palynological assemblages from Slovenian Middle Triassic sections and Susak More-1 off-shore well always contain Permian, Scythian and Scythian-Lower Anisian palynomorphs.
Georg Jerinić, Bogomir Jelen
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