Time and again, over hundreds of millions of years, environmental disturbances have
caused mass extinctions of animals ranging from reptiles to corals. The anthropogenic loss …

Archosauria diversified throughout the Triassic Period before experiencing two mass
extinctions near its end∼ 201 Mya, leaving only the crocodile-lineage (Crocodylomorpha) …

The vertebrate lineages that would shape Mesozoic and Cenozoic terrestrial ecosystems
originated across Triassic Pangaea,,,,,,,,,–. By the Late Triassic (Carnian stage,~ 235 million …

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 …

Dinosaurs have been major components of ecosystems for over 200 million years. Although
different macroevolutionary scenarios exist to explain the Triassic origin and subsequent …

Abundant lake ice-rafted debris in Late Triassic and earliest Jurassic strata of the Junggar
Basin of northwestern China (paleolatitude~ 71° N) indicates that freezing winter …

Abstract The Triassic–Jurassic transition, which is here broadly defined as extending from
the Late Triassic through the Early Jurassic (~ 237 Ma to 174 Ma), was an important interval …

The ascendancy of dinosaurs to become dominant components of terrestrial ecosystems
was a pivotal event in the history of life, yet the drivers of their early evolution and …

The Triassic hothouse world experienced dynamic changes in climate and ecosystems that
set the Earth's climate and biotic states for much of the Mesozoic Era. A critical time interval …

The Newark–Hartford astrochronostratigraphic polarity timescale (APTS) was developed
using a theoretically constant 405-kiloyear eccentricity cycle linked to gravitational …