The timing and pattern of biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction

ZQ Chen, MJ Benton - Nature Geoscience, 2012 - nature.com
The aftermath of the great end-Permian period mass extinction 252 Myr ago shows how life
can recover from the loss of> 90% species globally. The crisis was triggered by a number of …

Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles

CT Griffin, MR Stocker, C Colleary… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology forms the most fundamental level of data in vertebrate palaeontology because it
is through interpretations of morphology that taxa are identified, creating the basis for broad …

Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria

MD Ezcurra, SJ Nesbitt, M Bronzati, FM Dalla Vecchia… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight 1 and comprised one of the
main evolutionary radiations in terrestrial ecosystems of the Mesozoic era (approximately …

A new hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and early dinosaur evolution

MG Baron, DB Norman, PM Barrett - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
For 130 years, dinosaurs have been divided into two distinct clades—Ornithischia and
Saurischia. Here we present a hypothesis for the phylogenetic relationships of the major …

[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 …

Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations

JF Parham, PCJ Donoghue, CJ Bell… - Systematic …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Our ability to correlate biological evolution with climate change, geological evolution, and
other historical patterns is essential to understanding the processes that shape biodiversity …

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 …

[LIBRO][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 …

[HTML][HTML] Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman… - 2015 - palaeo-electronica.org
Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

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 …