Environmental crises at the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

J Dal Corso, H Song, S Callegaro, D Chu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The link between the Permian–Triassic mass extinction (252 million years ago) and the
emplacement of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province (STLIP) was first proposed in …

[HTML][HTML] The origin of endothermy in synapsids and archosaurs and arms races in the Triassic

MJ Benton - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Birds and mammals are key elements of modern ecosystems, and many biologists explain
their great success by their endothermy, or warm-bloodedness. New palaeontological …

A Mesozoic fossil lagerstätte from 250.8 million years ago shows a modern-type marine ecosystem

X Dai, JHFL Davies, Z Yuan, A Brayard, M Ovtcharova… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Finely preserved fossil assemblages (lagerstätten) provide crucial insights into evolutionary
innovations in deep time. We report an exceptionally preserved Early Triassic fossil …

Early giant reveals faster evolution of large body size in ichthyosaurs than in cetaceans

PM Sander, EM Griebeler, N Klein, JV Juarbe… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The iterative evolution of secondarily marine tetrapods since the Paleozoic
offers the promise of better understanding how the anatomy and ecology of animals change …

Multiple episodes of extensive marine anoxia linked to global warming and continental weathering following the latest Permian mass extinction

F Zhang, SJ Romaniello, TJ Algeo, KV Lau… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Explaining the~ 5-million-year delay in marine biotic recovery following the latest Permian
mass extinction, the largest biotic crisis of the Phanerozoic, is a fundamental challenge for …

Unexpected Early Triassic marine ecosystem and the rise of the Modern evolutionary fauna

A Brayard, LJ Krumenacker, JP Botting, JF Jenks… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
In the wake of the end-Permian mass extinction, the Early Triassic (~ 251.9 to 247 million
years ago) is portrayed as an environmentally unstable interval characterized by several …

Triassic revolution

MJ Benton, F Wu - Frontiers in earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Triassic has long been recognized as a time during which marine and terrestrial
ecosystems modernized dramatically, and it seems to have been a two-step process. First …

Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene

NP Kelley, ND Pyenson - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND More than 30 different lineages of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and
mammals have independently invaded oceans ecosystems. Prominent examples include …

Mercury enrichments provide evidence of Early Triassic volcanism following the end-Permian mass extinction

J Shen, TJ Algeo, NJ Planavsky, J Yu, Q Feng… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Oceanic environments and biotas were in a state of near-continuous perturbation during the
Early Triassic, the~ 5-million-year interval following the latest Permian mass extinction …

An armoured marine reptile from the Early Triassic of South China and its phylogenetic and evolutionary implications

AS Wolniewicz, Y Shen, Q Li, Y Sun, Y Qiao, Y Chen… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Sauropterygia was a taxonomically and ecomorphologically diverse clade of Mesozoic
marine reptiles spanning the Early Triassic to the Late Cretaceous. Sauropterygians are …