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 …

The Luoping biota: exceptional preservation, and new evidence on the Triassic recovery from end-Permian mass extinction

S Hu, Q Zhang, ZQ Chen, C Zhou… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The timing and nature of biotic recovery from the devastating end-Permian mass extinction
(252 Ma) are much debated. New studies in South China suggest that complex marine …

Early Triassic marine biotic recovery: the predators' perspective

TM Scheyer, C Romano, J Jenks, H Bucher - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Examining the geological past of our planet allows us to study periods of severe climatic and
biological crises and recoveries, biotic and abiotic ecosystem fluctuations, and faunal and …

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 …

High productivity promoted exceptional fossil preservation of the early Middle Triassic Luoping biota of Yunnan Province, China

Z Ma, S Hu, H Wu, X Liu, C Zhou, W Wen… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The early Middle Triassic (Anisian) Luoping biota is representative of marine
ecosystems following their full recovery after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction; however …

Panzhousaurus rotundirostris Jiang et al., 2019 (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) and the recovery of the monophyly of Pachypleurosauridae

WB Lin, DY Jiang, O Rieppel, R Motani… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Panzhousaurus rotundirostris Jiang, Lin, Rieppel, Motani and Sun, 2019, is
restudied on the basis of a second specimen from the Upper Member of the Guanling …

Triassic actinopterygian fishes: the recovery after the end‐Permian crisis

A Tintori, T Hitij, D Jiang, C Lombardo… - Integrative …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In the last 15 years, the discovery of several new actinopterygian fish faunas from the Early
and Middle Triassic of the Tethys, cast new light on the timing, speed and range of their …

Macropredatory ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic and the origin of modern trophic networks

NB Fröbisch, J Fröbisch, PM Sander… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The biotic recovery from Earth's most severe extinction event at the Permian-Triassic
boundary largely reestablished the preextinction structure of marine trophic networks, with …

Exceptionally Preserved Conodont Natural Assemblages from the Middle Triassic Luoping Biota, Yunnan Province, China: Implications for Architecture of Conodont …

J Huang, C Martinez-Perez, Q Zhang, K Zhang… - Journal of Earth …, 2023 - Springer
Articulated natural assemblages contain direct evidence of the element numbers,
morphologies, positions and structures for reconstructing the feeding apparatuses of …

Oldest stem Teleostei from the late Ladinian (Middle Triassic) of southern China

A Tintori, Z Sun, P Ni, C Lombardo, D Jiang… - Rivista Italiana di …, 2015 - air.unimi.it
The origin of the largest modern vertebrate group, the Teleostei, saw major refinements in
the last decades, thanks to newly discovered and stratigraphically closely spaced Triassic …