Triassic revolution

MJ Benton, F Wu - Frontiers in earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Triassic has long been recognized as a time during which marine and terrestrial
ecosystems modernized dramatically, and it seems to have been a two-step process. First …

Walking—and running and jum**—with dinosaurs and their cousins, viewed through the lens of evolutionary biomechanics

AR Cuff, OE Demuth, K Michel, A Otero… - Integrative and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Archosauria diversified throughout the Triassic Period before experiencing two mass
extinctions near its end∼ 201 Mya, leaving only the crocodile-lineage (Crocodylomorpha) …

New reptile shows dinosaurs and pterosaurs evolved among diverse precursors

RT Müller, MD Ezcurra, MS Garcia, FL Agnolín… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Dinosaurs and pterosaurs have remarkable diversity and disparity through most of the
Mesozoic Era,–. Soon after their origins, these reptiles diversified into a number of long-lived …

A new archosauriform species from the Panchet Formation of India and the diversification of Proterosuchidae after the end-Permian mass extinction

MD Ezcurra, S Bandyopadhyay… - Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Proterosuchidae represents the oldest substantial diversification of Archosauromorpha and
plays a key role in understanding the biotic recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction …

Review of the fossil record of early dinosaurs from South America, and its phylogenetic implications

FE Novas, FL Agnolin, MD Ezcurra, RT Müller… - Journal of South …, 2021 - Elsevier
Triassic beds from Argentina and Brazil provide the most relevant fossil record of early
dinosauriforms in terms of numerical abundance and taxonomic diversity. This record …

Africa's oldest dinosaurs reveal early suppression of dinosaur distribution

CT Griffin, BM Wynd, D Munyikwa, TJ Broderick… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The vertebrate lineages that would shape Mesozoic and Cenozoic terrestrial ecosystems
originated across Triassic Pangaea,,,,,,,,,–. By the Late Triassic (Carnian stage,~ 235 million …

The phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs

D Madzia, VM Arbour, CA Boyd, AA Farke… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Ornithischians form a large clade of globally distributed Mesozoic dinosaurs, and represent
one of their three major radiations. Throughout their evolutionary history, exceeding 134 …

Scleromochlus and the early evolution of Pterosauromorpha

D Foffa, EM Dunne, SJ Nesbitt, RJ Butler, NC Fraser… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight, were key components of Mesozoic
terrestrial ecosystems from their sudden appearance in the Late Triassic until their demise at …

Taxonomic, palaeobiological and evolutionary implications of a phylogenetic hypothesis for Ornithischia (Archosauria: Dinosauria)

DB Norman, MG Baron, MS Garcia… - Zoological Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The origin and evolutionary relationships of ornithischian dinosaurs are topics that have
undergone a series of substantial revisions. At present there are several competing …

The evolution of pelvic limb muscle moment arms in bird-line archosaurs

VR Allen, BM Kilbourne, JR Hutchinson - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Bipedal locomotion evolved along the archosaurian lineage to birds, shifting from “hip-
based” to “knee-based” mechanisms. However, the roles of individual muscles in these …