The latest Ordovician Hirnantian brachiopod faunas: new global insights

J Rong, DAT Harper, B Huang, R Li, X Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The temporal and spatial distribution of Hirnantian brachiopod faunas are reviewed based
on a new, comprehensive dataset from over 20 palaeoplates and terranes, a revised …

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 …

[图书][B] The ancient origins of consciousness: How the brain created experience

TE Feinberg, JM Mallatt - 2016 - books.google.com
How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly
assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious …

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 earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan

SJ Nesbitt, RJ Butler, MD Ezcurra, PM Barrett… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The relationship between dinosaurs and other reptiles is well established,,,, but the
sequence of acquisition of dinosaurian features has been obscured by the scarcity of fossils …

A network approach for identifying and delimiting biogeographical regions

DA Vilhena, A Antonelli - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Biogeographical regions (geographically distinct assemblages of species and communities)
constitute a cornerstone for ecology, biogeography, evolution and conservation biology …

The precise temporal calibration of dinosaur origins

CA Marsicano, RB Irmis, AC Mancuso… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Dinosaurs have been major components of ecosystems for over 200 million years. Although
different macroevolutionary scenarios exist to explain the Triassic origin and subsequent …

Anatomy of a mass extinction: sedimentological and taphonomic evidence for drought-induced die-offs at the Permo-Triassic boundary in the main Karoo Basin, South …

RMH Smith, J Botha-Brink - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2014 - Elsevier
The southern part of the Karoo Basin of South Africa contains a near complete stratigraphic
record of the Permo-Triassic boundary (PTB). Isotope-and magneto-stratigraphy confirm that …

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 …

A living fossil tale of Pangaean biogeography

J Murienne, SR Daniels, TR Buckley… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The current distributions of widespread groups of terrestrial animals and plants are
supposedly the result of a mixture of either vicariance owing to continental split or more …