The origin and early evolution of dinosaurs

MC Langer, MD Ezcurra, JS Bittencourt… - Biological …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The oldest unequivocal records of Dinosauria were unearthed from Late Triassic rocks
(approximately 230 Ma) accumulated over extensional rift basins in southwestern Pangea …

Mesozoic rifting evolution of SW Gondwana: a poly-phased, subduction-related, extensional history responsible for basin formation along the Argentinean Atlantic …

JP Lovecchio, S Rohais, P Joseph, ND Bolatti… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The opening of the South Atlantic in the Early Cretaceous was the final stage of the complex
rifting history of SW Gondwana. In this contribution we reassess the chronology of Mesozoic …

Triassic faunal successions of the Paraná Basin, southern Brazil

CL Schultz, AG Martinelli, MB Soares… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paraná Basin was filled by a sedimentary package deposited in successive
sedimentation episodes related to the tectonic events that hit the SW portion of the …

U-Pb age constraints on dinosaur rise from south Brazil

MC Langer, J Ramezani, ÁAS Da Rosa - Gondwana Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Triassic dinosaurs from South Brazil are considered as some of the oldest known
worldwide, but their precise correlation to other early dinosaur occurrences have proven …

The Late Triassic Ischigualasto Formation at Cerro Las Lajas (La Rioja, Argentina): fossil tetrapods, high-resolution chronostratigraphy, and faunal correlations

JB Desojo, LE Fiorelli, MD Ezcurra, AG Martinelli… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Present knowledge of Late Triassic tetrapod evolution, including the rise of
dinosaurs, relies heavily on the fossil-rich continental deposits of South America, their …

Review of the fossil record of early dinosaurs from South America, and its phylogenetic implications

FE Novas, FL Agnolin, MD Ezcurra, RT Müller… - Journal of South …, 2021 - Elsevier
Triassic beds from Argentina and Brazil provide the most relevant fossil record of early
dinosauriforms in terms of numerical abundance and taxonomic diversity. This record …

A new third-order sequence stratigraphic framework applied to the Triassic of the Paraná Basin, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, based on structural, stratigraphic and …

BLD Horn, TM Melo, CL Schultz, RP Philipp… - Journal of South …, 2014 - Elsevier
The Santacruzodon assemblage zone was originally defined as a vertebrate fossil
assemblage composed basically of non-mammalian cynodonts found in Santa Cruz do Sul …

The Carnian Humid Episode of the late Triassic: a review

A Ruffell, MJ Simms, PB Wignall - Geological Magazine, 2016 - cambridge.org
From 1989 to 1994 a series of papers outlined evidence for a brief episode of climate
change from arid to humid, and then back to arid, during the Carnian Stage of the late …

[HTML][HTML] The continental tetrapod-bearing Triassic of south Brazil

MC Langer, AM Ribeiro, CL Schultz… - New Mexico Museum of …, 2007 - books.google.com
The Rosário do Sul Group is one of the better-known tetrapod-bearing continental deposits
of Triassic age. It crops out in central Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil, and has yielded a …

The stratigraphic puzzle of the permo-mesozoic southwestern Gondwana: The Paraná Basin record in geotectonic and palaeoclimatic context

CMS Scherer, AD Reis, BLD Horn, G Bertolini… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The compilation of stratigraphic, sedimentologic, paleontologic and geochronological data
allows the proposal of a regional stratigraphic framework for the Late Permian to Lower …