The origin and early evolution of dinosaurs

MC Langer, MD Ezcurra, JS Bittencourt… - Biological …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
The oldest unequivocal records of Dinosauria were unearthed from Late Triassic rocks
(approximately 230 Ma) accumulated over extensional rift basins in southwestern Pangea …

Dinosaur success in the Triassic: a noncompetitive ecological model

MJ Benton - The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1983‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
The initial radiation of the dinosaurs in the Triassic period (about 200 million years ago) has
been generally regarded as a result of successful competition with the previously dominant …

[HTML][HTML] The phylogenetic relationships of basal archosauromorphs, with an emphasis on the systematics of proterosuchian archosauriforms

MD Ezcurra - PeerJ, 2016‏ - peerj.com
The early evolution of archosauromorphs during the Permo-Triassic constitutes an excellent
empirical case study to shed light on evolutionary radiations in deep time and the timing and …

[كتاب][B] The early evolution of archosaurs: relationships and the origin of major clades

SJ Nesbitt - 2009‏ - search.proquest.com
Archosaurs have a 250 million year record that originated shortly after the Permian-Triassic
extinction event and is continued today by two extant clades, the crocodylians and the …

[كتاب][B] Vertebrate palaeontology

MJ Benton - 2014‏ - books.google.com
Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …

[PDF][PDF] Archosaur phylogeny and the relationships of the Crocodylia

MJ Benton, JM Clark - The phylogeny and classification …, 1988‏ - benton.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
The Archosauria include the living crocodilians and birds, as well as the fossil dinosaurs,
pterosaurs, and basal'thecodontians'. Cladograms of the basal archosaurs and of the …

The evolution of the antorbital cavity of archosaurs: a study in soft-tissue reconstruction in the fossil record with an analysis of the function of pneumaticity

LM Witmer - Journal of vertebrate Paleontology, 1997‏ - Taylor & Francis
The most commonly cited apomorphy of Archosauriformes is an opening in the snout known
as the antorbital cavity. Despite the ubiquity and prominence of the antorbital cavity, its …

The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan

SJ Nesbitt, RJ Butler, MD Ezcurra, PM Barrett… - Nature, 2017‏ - nature.com
The relationship between dinosaurs and other reptiles is well established,,,, but the
sequence of acquisition of dinosaurian features has been obscured by the scarcity of fossils …

Basal archosaurs: phylogenetic relationships and functional implications

PC Sereno - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1991‏ - Taylor & Francis
Archosaurs first appeared in the Middle Triassic and within a short interval of time came to
dominate all faunas of large vertebrates for the remainder of the Mesozoic. It is widely held …

Global Triassic tetrapod biostratigraphy and biochronology

SG Lucas - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 1998‏ - Elsevier
Eight, temporally successive assemblage zones of tetrapod fossils provide the basis for
dividing Triassic time into eight land-vertebrate faunachrons. These land-vertebrate …