Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

CF Kammerer, PA Viglietti, E Butler, J Botha - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Catastrophic ecosystem disruption in the late Permian period resulted in the greatest loss of
biodiversity in Earth's history, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction (PTME). 1 The dominant …

Early Triassic terrestrial tetrapod fauna: a review

M Romano, M Bernardi, FM Petti, B Rubidge… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Permian-Triassic mass extinction (PTME, ca. 252 Mya) was one of the most
severe biotic crises of the Phanerozoic, eliminating> 90% of marine and terrestrial species …

Evidence from South Africa for a protracted end-Permian extinction on land

PA Viglietti, RBJ Benson, RMH Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Earth's largest biotic crisis occurred during the Permo–Triassic Transition (PTT). On land,
this event witnessed a turnover from synapsid-to archosauromorph-dominated assemblages …

The base of the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, predates the end-Permian marine extinction

RA Gastaldo, SL Kamo, J Neveling… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The current model for the end-Permian terrestrial ecosystem crisis holds that systematic loss
exhibited by an abrupt turnover from the Daptocephalus to the Lystrosaurus Assemblage …

New geochemical and palaeontological data from the Permian-Triassic boundary in the South African Karoo Basin test the synchronicity of terrestrial and marine …

J Botha, AK Huttenlocker, RMH Smith, R Prevec… - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) is widely recognised as the largest mass
extinction in Phanerozoic history. In marine strata the main extinction event is well …

Biostratigraphy of the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa

PA Viglietti - South African Journal of Geology 2020, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The name Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (DaAZ) is re-instated for vertebrate
assemblages of the uppermost Permian strata (Balfour, upper Teekloof, and Normandien …

Permian-Triassic vertebrate footprints from South Africa: Ichnotaxonomy, producers and biostratigraphy through two major faunal crises

L Marchetti, H Klein, M Buchwitz, A Ronchi… - Gondwana …, 2019 - Elsevier
The fossil record of mid to late Permian terrestrial vertebrates in the South African Karoo
Basin is regarded as the most abundant and diverse in the world. Despite the extensive …

Non-mammaliaform cynodonts from western Gondwana and the significance of Argentinean forms in enhancing understanding of the group

F Abdala, LC Gaetano, AG Martinelli, MB Soares… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
Terrestrial Triassic assemblages are an important component of the heritage of Argentina,
particularly because of their diverse record of fossil vertebrates. Triassic basins from western …

Ecological persistence, incumbency and reorganization in the Karoo Basin during the Permian-Triassic transition

PD Roopnarine, KD Angielczyk, A Weik… - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The geological persistence of biotic assemblages and their reorganization or destruction by
mass extinctions are key features of long-term macroevolutionary and macroecological …

Dicynodonts (Therapsida: Anomodontia) of South America

CF Kammerer, M de los Angeles Ordonez - Journal of South American …, 2021 - Elsevier
The dicynodont fauna of South America is comprehensively reviewed. Permian South
American dicynodont body fossils are known only from the Rio do Rasto Formation of …