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 …

Synchrotron scanning sheds new light on Lumkuia fuzzi (Therapsida, Cynodontia) from the Middle Triassic of South Africa and its phylogenetic placement

J Benoit, M Nxumalo, LA Norton, V Fernandez… - Journal of African Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lumkuia fuzzi is a small non-mammalian cynodont from the Middle Triassic of South Africa. It
has traditionally been phylogenetically identified as a basal Probainognathia, but some …

Endocranial anatomy of the early prozostrodonts (Eucynodontia: Probainognathia) and the neurosensory evolution in mammal forerunners

L Kerber, L Roese‐Miron, JM Bubadué… - The Anatomical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Prozostrodon brasiliensis and Therioherpeton cargnini are non‐mammaliaform cynodonts
that lived~ 233 million years ago (late Carnian, Late Triassic) in western Gondwana. They …

Mass extinctions drove increased global faunal cosmopolitanism on the supercontinent Pangaea

DJ Button, GT Lloyd, MD Ezcurra, RJ Butler - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Mass extinctions have profoundly impacted the evolution of life through not only reducing
taxonomic diversity but also reshaping ecosystems and biogeographic patterns. In …

Reassessment of Faxinalipterus minimus, a purported Triassic pterosaur from southern Brazil with the description of a new taxon

AWA Kellner, B Holgado, O Grillo, FA Pretto, L Kerber… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Faxinalipterus minimus was originally described as a purported pterosaur from the Late
Triassic (early Norian) Caturrita Formation of southern Brazil. Its holotype comprises …

Brazilian fossils reveal homoplasy in the oldest mammalian jaw joint

JRG Rawson, AG Martinelli, PG Gill, MB Soares… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The acquisition of the load-bearing dentary–squamosal jaw joint was a key step in
mammalian evolution,,,–. Although this innovation has received decades of study, questions …

[HTML][HTML] The African cynodont Aleodon (Cynodontia, Probainognathia) in the Triassic of southern Brazil and its biostratigraphic significance

AG Martinelli, CF Kammerer, TP Melo, VD Paes Neto… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
In this contribution we report the first occurrence of the enigmatic African probainognathian
genus Aleodon in the Middle-early Late Triassic of several localities from the state of Rio …

[图书][B] Mesozoic mammals from South America and their forerunners

GW Rougier, AG Martinelli, AM Forasiepi - 2021 - Springer
As evolutionary biologists, we live in exciting and promising times. The material basis of our
science is growing at an unprecedented rate; fossils preserving structures we thought …

A complete skull of a stem mammal from the Late Triassic of Brazil illuminates the early evolution of prozostrodontian cynodonts

M Stefanello, AG Martinelli, RT Müller… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Triassic cynodonts from South America are key taxa in the investigation of the
emergence of mammalian characters. One of the most iconic species from the Carnian is …

[HTML][HTML] Two new cynodonts (Therapsida) from the Middle-Early Late Triassic of Brazil and comments on South American probainognathians

AG Martinelli, MB Soares, C Schwanke - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
We describe two new cynodonts from the early Late Triassic of southern Brazil. One taxon,
Bonacynodon schultzi gen. et sp. nov., comes from the lower Carnian Dinodontosaurus AZ …