The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs

SL Brusatte, SJ Nesbitt, RB Irmis, RJ Butler… - Earth-Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Dinosaurs were remarkably successful during the Mesozoic and one subgroup, birds,
remain an important component of modern ecosystems. Although the extinction of non-avian …

The Triassic timescale: new constraints and a review of geochronological data

R Mundil, J Pálfy, PR Renne… - Geological Society, London …, 2010 - lyellcollection.org
A review of geochronological data underlying the geological timescale for the Triassic yields
a significantly different timescale calibration than that published in the most recent …

Vertebrate succession in the Ischigualasto Formation

RN Martínez, C Apaldetti, OA Alcober… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The Upper Triassic (Carnian–Norian) Ischigualasto Formation has yielded a diverse
vertebrate fauna that records the initial phase of dinosaur evolution. Radioisotopic dates …

Implications of the Newark Supergroup-based astrochronology and geomagnetic polarity time scale (Newark-APTS) for the tempo and mode of the early diversification …

PE Olsen, DV Kent, JH Whiteside - … of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2010 - cambridge.org
The Newark-APTS established a high-resolution framework for the Late Triassic and Early
Jurassic. Palaeomagnetic polarity correlations to marine sections show that stage-level …

Eocene clocks agree: Coeval 40Ar/39Ar, U-Pb, and astronomical ages from the Green River Formation

ME Smith, KR Chamberlain, BS Singer… - …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
U-Pb ages of zircon from the Firehole and Analcite ash beds in the Eocene Green River
Formation (Wyoming, United States) are indistinguishable from 40Ar/39Ar ages of sanidine …

The 40Ar/39Ar ages of the sill complex of the Karoo large igneous province: Implications for the Pliensbachian‐Toarcian climate change

F Jourdan, G Féraud, H Bertrand… - Geochemistry …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Reliable geochronological results gathered so far (n= 76) have considerably constrained the
timing of the emplacement of the Karoo large igneous province (LIP). Yet strikingly missing …

Implications of pre-eruptive magmatic histories of zircons for U–Pb geochronology of silicic extrusions

JI Simon, PR Renne, R Mundil - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2008 - Elsevier
Zircons in silicic magmas begin to crystallize 10's to 100's of thousands of years (ka) prior to
their eruption. U/Pb and U/Th dating for zircons from 32 young extrusions indicate a range of …

An appraisal of the ages of terrestrial impact structures

F Jourdan, PR Renne, WU Reimold - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2009 - Elsevier
There are 174 confirmed impact structures known on Earth (eg, http://www. unb. ca/passc/
ImpactDatabase/; late 2008) but a far smaller number of impact structures has yielded a well …

40Ar/39Ar ages of CAMP in North America: Implications for the Triassic–Jurassic boundary and the 40K decay constant bias

F Jourdan, A Marzoli, H Bertrand, S Cirilli, LH Tanner… - Lithos, 2009 - Elsevier
The Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP) is one of the largest igneous provinces on
Earth (> 107 km2), spanning four continents. Recent high-precision 40Ar/39Ar dating of …

The Rumuruti chondrite group

A Bischoff, N Vogel, J Roszjar - Geochemistry, 2011 - Elsevier
Since 1994, the Rumuruti (R) chondrites have been recognized as a new, well-established
chondrite group differing from carbonaceous, ordinary, and enstatite chondrites. The first R …