Africa's oldest dinosaurs reveal early suppression of dinosaur distribution

CT Griffin, BM Wynd, D Munyikwa, TJ Broderick… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The vertebrate lineages that would shape Mesozoic and Cenozoic terrestrial ecosystems
originated across Triassic Pangaea,,,,,,,,,–. By the Late Triassic (Carnian stage,~ 235 million …

A new lungfish from the Upper Triassic of the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe

TJ Challands, L Cavin, M Zondo… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The lungfish, the extant sister group of the tetrapods, have an evolutionary history illustrated
by a fossil record extending for∼ 420 million years. The post-Paleozoic fossil record of the …

Description of the metoposaurid Anaschisma browni from the New Oxford Formation of Pennsylvania

BM Gee, SE Jasinski - Journal of Paleontology, 2021 - cambridge.org
Metoposaurids are a widespread and ubiquitous constituent of Late Triassic non-marine
paleoenvironments. In North America, this group is practically the only large-bodied …

High-latitude climatic response across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary recorded by Mg-Cu-Zn isotopes

KC **ng, F Wang, FZ Teng, WL Xu, M Li, YW Sun… - Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Triassic-Jurassic boundary is one of the most important geological boundaries
in the Earth's evolutionary history. Previous paleoclimate studies focused primarily on Tethys …

Revised anatomy, taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Notochampsa istedana Broom, 1904, a Lower Jurassic crocodyliform from the Clarens Formation (Stormberg …

KN Dollman, JM Clark, PA Viglietti… - Journal of Systematic …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The early-branching crocodylomorph species Notochampsa istedana is known from a single
South African specimen collected more than 100 years ago. This species is potentially …

Invertebrate and plant trace fossils from the terrestrial Late Triassic of Zimbabwe

L Sciscio, TJ Broderick, PM Barrett, D Munyikwa… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Late Triassic invertebrate and plant trace fossils are described from the Pebbly Arkose
Formation of the Upper Karoo Group (Gwembe Sub-basin, Mid-Zambezi Basin), Zimbabwe …