Exceptional vertebrate biotas from the Triassic of China, and the expansion of marine ecosystems after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction

MJ Benton, Q Zhang, S Hu, ZQ Chen, W Wen, J Liu… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Triassic was a time of turmoil, as life recovered from the most devastating of all mass
extinctions, the Permo-Triassic event 252 million years ago. The Triassic marine rock …

Thalattosauria in time and space: A review of thalattosaur spatiotemporal occurrences, presumed evolutionary relationships and current ecological hypotheses

D Bastiaans - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2024 - Springer
In the wake of the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history, the End-Permian Mass
Extinction, the Triassic was a time of recovery and innovation. Aided by warm climatic …

Emergence and ecological transition of the Mesozoic marine reptiles: Evidence from the Early Triassic Chaohu and the Middle Triassic Xingyi Faunas

D Jiang, M Zhou, R Motani, A Tintori, NC Fraser… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Two major evolutionary events in the early history of Mesozoic marine reptiles have been
recorded in the Triassic of China. The first event evidenced by the Early Triassic Chaohu …

A new stem-neopterygian fish from the Middle Triassic of China shows the earliest over-water gliding strategy of the vertebrates

GH Xu, LJ Zhao, KQ Gao… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Flying fishes are extraordinary aquatic vertebrates capable of gliding great distances over
water by exploiting their enlarged pectoral fins and asymmetrical caudal fin. Some 50 …

[图书][B] Mesozoic sea dragons: Triassic marine life from the Ancient tropical lagoon of Monte San Giorgio

O Rieppel - 2019 - books.google.com
Told in rich detail and with gorgeous color recreations, this is the story of marine life in the
age before the dinosaurs. During the Middle Triassic Period (247–237 million years ago) …

A new armored archosauriform (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the marine Middle Triassic of China, with implications for the diverse life styles of archosauriforms …

C Li, X Wu, L Zhao, SJ Nesbitt, MR Stocker… - The Science of …, 2016 - Springer
Reptiles have a long history of transitioning from terrestrial to semi-aquatic or aquatic
environments that stretches back at least 250 million years. Within Archosauria, both living …

Re-description of the sexually dimorphic peltopleuriform fish Wushaichthys exquisitus (Middle Triassic, China): taxonomic implications and phylogenetic relationships

C Shen, G Arratia - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Wushaichthys exquisitus, a small fish from the Ladinian of Xingyi, Guizhou Province,
southern China, was named a few years ago and interpreted as the most primitive species in …

Ammonoids from the Zhuganpo Member of the Falang Formation at Nimaigu and their relevance for dating the Xingyi fossil-lagerstätte (late Ladinian, Guizhou, China)

X Zou, M Balini, DY Jiang, A Tintori, ZY Sun… - Rivista Italiana di …, 2015 - riviste.unimi.it
We herein document the various ammonoid faunas, of which 8 are newly described taxa,
recently collected from the Falang Formation at Nimaigu (Wusha) near Xingyi (Guizhou …

A new species of Macrocnemus (Reptilia: Protorosauria) from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China and its palaeogeographical implication

C Li, L Zhao, LT Wang - Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences, 2007 - Springer
A new species of the terrestrial protorosaur Macrocnemus is briefly described and named
Macrocne-mus fuyuanensis sp. nov. The specimen was found from the marine Triassic of …

A new archosaur (Diapsida, Archosauriformes) from the marine Triassic of China

C Li, XC Wu, LJ Zhao, T Sato… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new Middle Triassic archosaur, Diandongosuchus fuyuanensis, gen. et sp.
nov., is described on the basis of a skeleton from the Zhuganpo Member (Ladinian) of the …