Permian and Triassic greenhouse crises

GJ Retallack - Gondwana Research, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Paleoclimatic time series from Permian and Triassic paleosols reveal transient episodes of
unusually warm and wet conditions, interrupting long periods of cool and dry conditions …

Origin and early evolution of vertebrate burrowing behaviour

L Marchetti, MJ MacDougall, M Buchwitz… - Earth-Science …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The ability to live underground is widespread among continental vertebrates, so
understanding the origin and early evolution of fossorial vertebrates and the architecture …

End-Permian burnout: The role of Permian–Triassic wildfires in extinction, carbon cycling, and environmental change in eastern Gondwana

C Mays, S McLoughlin - Palaios, 2022‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Wildfire has been implicated as a potential driver of deforestation and continental
biodiversity loss during the end-Permian extinction event (EPE;∼ 252 Ma). However, it …

Distribution and diversity patterns of Triassic cynodonts (Therapsida, Cynodontia) in Gondwana

F Abdala, AM Ribeiro - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Cynodonts are an important component of Triassic tetrapod faunas and are frequently one of
the dominant groups. A summary of their record during the Triassic of Gondwana is …

Non-mammalian synapsids: the deep roots of the mammalian family tree

KD Angielczyk, CF Kammerer - Mammalian evolution, diversity and …, 2018‏ - degruyter.com
Mammals are arguably the most conspicuous tetrapods in the modern biota. Although there
are fewer extant mammal species (~ 5,500) than birds (~ 10,000) or squamates (~ 10,000) …

Early Triassic terrestrial tetrapod fauna: a review

M Romano, M Bernardi, FM Petti, B Rubidge… - Earth-Science …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Permian-Triassic mass extinction (PTME, ca. 252 Mya) was one of the most
severe biotic crises of the Phanerozoic, eliminating> 90% of marine and terrestrial species …

Age and paleoenvironmental significance of the Frazer Beach Member—a new lithostratigraphic unit overlying the end-Permian extinction horizon in the Sydney …

S McLoughlin, RS Nicoll, JL Crowley, V Vajda… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
The newly defined Frazer Beach Member of the Moon Island Beach Formation is identified
widely across the Sydney Basin in both outcrop and exploration wells. This thin unit was …

Fluvial environments

RN Melchor, JF Genise, LA Buatois… - Developments in …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
This chapter reviews the present knowledge on the sedimentary facies distribution and
ichnofacies assignation of assemblages of trace fossils from fluvial environments, including …

The Fremouw Formation of Antarctica: Updated vertebrate fossil record and reevaluation of high-latitude Permian–Triassic paleoenvironments

CA Sidor, JA McIntosh, BM Gee, WR Hammer… - Earth-Science …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Permian–Triassic rocks of the Transantarctic Basin provide an unparalleled record of high
latitude paleoenvironments and terrestrial vertebrate faunas. Here we summarize the …

Burrowing in Lystrosaurus: preadaptation to a postextinction environment?

J Botha-Brink - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2017‏ - Taylor & Francis
Lystrosaurus is iconic for surviving the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction and becoming the
most abundant terrestrial vertebrate during the Early Triassic. Previous reports of skeletal …