Ecological opportunity and adaptive radiation

JT Stroud, JB Losos - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The process of adaptive radiation—the proliferation of species from a single ancestor and
diversification into many ecologically different forms—has been of great interest to …

U-Pb age constraints on dinosaur rise from south Brazil

MC Langer, J Ramezani, ÁAS Da Rosa - Gondwana Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Triassic dinosaurs from South Brazil are considered as some of the oldest known
worldwide, but their precise correlation to other early dinosaur occurrences have proven …

Long-term cycles of Triassic climate change: a new δ18O record from conodont apatite

JA Trotter, IS Williams, A Nicora, M Mazza… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
A new oxygen isotope (δ 18 O) record derived from conodont apatite reveals variable long-
term climate trends throughout the Triassic period. This record shows several major, first …

[HTML][HTML] A unique Late Triassic dinosauromorph assemblage reveals dinosaur ancestral anatomy and diet

SF Cabreira, AWA Kellner, S Dias-da-Silva… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
Dinosauromorpha includes dinosaurs and other much less diverse dinosaur precursors of
Triassic age, such as lagerpetids [1]. Joint occurrences of these taxa with dinosaurs are rare …

The triassic period

JG Ogg, ZQ Chen, MJ Orchard, HS Jiang - Geologic time scale 2020, 2020 - Elsevier
The Triassic is bound by two mass extinctions that coincide with vast outpourings of volcanic
flood basalts. The Mesozoic begins with a gradual recovery of plant and animal life after the …

Dinosaur diversification linked with the Carnian Pluvial Episode

M Bernardi, P Gianolla, FM Petti, P Mietto… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Dinosaurs diversified in two steps during the Triassic. They originated about 245 Ma, during
the recovery from the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, and then remained insignificant until …

Hyperthermal-driven mass extinctions: killing models during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

MJ Benton - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many mass extinctions of life in the sea and on land have been attributed to geologically
rapid heating, and in the case of the Permian–Triassic and others, driven by large igneous …

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 …

The precise temporal calibration of dinosaur origins

CA Marsicano, RB Irmis, AC Mancuso, R Mundil… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
Dinosaurs have been major components of ecosystems for over 200 million years. Although
different macroevolutionary scenarios exist to explain the Triassic origin and subsequent …