The late Palaeozoic is a pivotal period for the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems.
Generalised warming and aridification trends resulted in profound floral and faunal turnover …

Four substantial tetrapod extinctions have been identified during the Permian, but only one
of these is an apparent mass extinction. Analyses of global compilations of the family-level …

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) …

The most extensive Permian tetrapod (amphibian and reptile) fossil records from the western
USA (New Mexico to Texas) and South Africa have been used to define 11 land vertebrate …

Tetrapod footprints are among the most common fossil remains in continental Permian strata
and thus are of biostratigraphic interest. Based on the vertical distribution of the 13 best …

The fossil record of mid to late Permian terrestrial vertebrates in the South African Karoo
Basin is regarded as the most abundant and diverse in the world. Despite the extensive …

Orbiting and landed spacecrafts have provided vast amounts of data on fluvial and fluvial-
related landforms and sediments on Mars. One variant of these landforms consists of ridges …

The Permian timescale has developed over about two centuries of research to the current
chronostratigraphic scale advocated by the Subcommission on Permian Stratigraphy of …

The Tuştea vertebrate locality, at Oltoane Hill (northwestern part of the Hațeg Basin,
Romania), has provided a rich and diverse assemblage of Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) …

Until recently, the Guadalupian (middle Permian) tetrapod fossil record was known almost
exclusively from the Karoo Basin of South Africa and the Cis-Urals region of Russia, limiting …