High-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona, USA): Temporal constraints on the early …

J Ramezani, GD Hoke, DE Fastovsky… - …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Triassic successions of the Colorado Plateau preserve an important record of vertebrate
evolution and climate change, but correlations to a global Triassic framework are hampered …

Vertebrate succession in the Ischigualasto Formation

RN Martínez, C Apaldetti, OA Alcober… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The Upper Triassic (Carnian–Norian) Ischigualasto Formation has yielded a diverse
vertebrate fauna that records the initial phase of dinosaur evolution. Radioisotopic dates …

A paraphyletic 'Silesauridae'as an alternative hypothesis for the initial radiation of ornithischian dinosaurs

RT Müller, MS Garcia - Biology letters, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Whereas ornithischian dinosaurs are well known from Jurassic and Cretaceous deposits,
deciphering the origin and early evolution of the group remains one of the hardest …

U-Pb zircon geochronology and depositional age models for the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation (Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA): Implications for Late …

C Rasmussen, R Mundil, RB Irmis, D Geisler… - GSA …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Upper Triassic Chinle Formation is a critical non-marine archive of low-
paleolatitude biotic and environmental change in southwestern North America. The well …

The Triassic timescale based on nonmarine tetrapod biostratigraphy and biochronology

SG Lucas - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2010 - lyellcollection.org
The Triassic timescale based on nonmarine tetrapod biostratigraphy and biochronology
divides Triassic time into eight land-vertebrate faunachrons (LVFs) with boundaries defined …

High-resolution U–Pb ages from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation (New Mexico, USA) support a diachronous rise of dinosaurs

RB Irmis, R Mundil, JW Martz, WG Parker - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Though the Late Triassic preserves major paleoenvironmental fluctuations and is key for
understanding the evolution of Mesozoic and modern terrestrial ecosystems, comparisons of …

[PDF][PDF] Models for the rise of the dinosaurs

MJ Benton, J Forth, MC Langer - Current Biology, 2014 - cell.com
Dinosaurs arose in the early Triassic in the aftermath of the greatest mass extinction ever
and became hugely successful in the Mesozoic. Their initial diversification is a classic …

Early evolution of sauropodomorphs: anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of a remarkably well-preserved dinosaur from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil

RT Müller, MC Langer, M Bronzati… - Zoological Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
An exceptional new specimen (CAPPA/UFSM 0035) of Buriolestes schultzi was discovered
during recent fieldwork at the type locality of the taxon, which is Carnian in age (Late …

[HTML][HTML] A new silesaurid from Carnian beds of Brazil fills a gap in the radiation of avian line archosaurs

RT Müller, MS Garcia - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Comprising the oldest unequivocal dinosauromorphs in the fossil record, silesaurs play an
important role in the Triassic radiation of dinosaurs. These reptiles provide the main source …

A new early dinosaur (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Argentina: a reassessment of dinosaur origin and phylogeny

MD Ezcurra - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
It was traditionally thought that the oldest known dinosaur assemblages were not diverse,
and that their early diversification and numerical dominance over other tetrapods occurred …