The Carnian Pluvial Episode and the origin of dinosaurs

MJ Benton, M Bernardi, C Kinsella - Journal of the Geological …, 2018 - lyellcollection.org
We present new evidence for a major inflection point in the history of tetrapods on land, a
jump in the diversification of archosauromorphs, primarily dinosaurs, at 232–230 Ma. This …

Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic)

J Dal Corso, M Bernardi, Y Sun, H Song… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic) was a time of global environmental changes
and possibly substantial coeval volcanism. The extent of the biological turnover in marine …

Cretaceous tetrapod fossil record sampling and faunal turnover: implications for biogeography and the rise of modern clades

RBJ Benson, PD Mannion, RJ Butler… - Palaeogeography …, 2013 - Elsevier
We use newly compiled data on global occurrences of Cretaceous lepidosaurs, mammals
and crocodylomorphs, and existing data on dinosaurs, to investigate faunal turnover and …

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 …

Late Triassic dinosaursfrom the western United States

AP Hunt, SG Lucas, AB Heckert, RM Sullivan… - Geobios, 1998 - Elsevier
Western North America has one of the most extensive fossil records of Late Triassic
dinosaurs. AllUpper Triassic strata are assigned to the Chinle Group which yields four …

Late Triassic terrestrial tetrapods: biostratigraphy, biochronology and biotic events

SG Lucas - The Late Triassic world: Earth in a time of transition, 2018 - Springer
The fossil record of Late Triassic tetrapods can be organized biostratigraphically and
biochronologically into five, temporally successive land-vertebrate faunachrons (LVFs) that …

The beginning of the 'Age of Dinosaurs': a brief overview of terrestrial biotic changes during the Triassic

NC Fraser, HD Sues - … Science Transactions of the Royal Society of …, 2010 - cambridge.org
The first appearance of dinosaurs during the early Late Triassic coincided with marked
faunal changes in terrestrial ecosystems. Most of the major groups of extant tetrapods (or …

Late Triassic extinctions and the origin of the dinosaurs

MJ Benton - Science, 1993 - science.org
Extinction timeline: Important events in the Late Triassic include several mass extinctions
and a major catastrophic impact of an extraterrestrial object. The first dinosaurs, such as …

A high-precision U–Pb zircon age constraints the timing of the faunistic and palynofloristic events of the Carnian Ischigualasto Formation, San Juan, Argentina

C Colombi, RN Martínez, SN Césari, O Alcober… - Journal of South …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Triassic represents records many of the most critical biotic crises in life-
history (from Carnian to the end-Triassic extinction, ETE). Some hypotheses propose that …

The first phytosaur (Diapsida, Archosauriformes) from the Late Triassic of the Iberian Peninsula

O Mateus, RJ Butler, SL Brusatte… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The Triassic was first defined based on the characteristic threefold sequence of rocks that
crops out across much of Europe, and many of the first records of Triassic dinosaurs …