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 P ermian and T riassic were key time intervals in the history of life on E arth. Both
periods are marked by a series of biotic crises including the most catastrophic of such …

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 …

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 …

Few studies paid attention to the Permian and Triassic vertebrates from the Iberian
Peninsula and a re-evaluation of these faunas is needed in order to compare them with …

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 …

The fossil record of coelacanths is patchy, with very few taxa known from the Triassic of Asia.
We report here two new genera and species of coelacanths from the Luoping Biota, a …

ABSTRACT A new genus and species of Pachypleurosauria, Dianopachysaurus dingi, gen.
et sp. nov., from a recently discovered Middle Triassic Lagerstätte in the Anisian Guanling …

Neopterygii is a taxonomically diverse group of ray-finned fishes, including Teleostei,
Holostei and their closely related fossil taxa. Here, a new small-sized stem-neopterygian …

Around the middle of the nineteenth century, Italian palaeontologists began to investigate
fossils of fishes and reptiles from the Middle Triassic outcrops in the vicinity of Monte San …