Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth's changing climate during the last 540 million years

CR Scotese, H Song, BJW Mills, DG van der Meer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This study provides a comprehensive and quantitative estimate of how global temperatures
have changed during the last 540 million years. It combines paleotemperature …

Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic)

J Dal Corso, M Bernardi, Y Sun, H Song… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic) was a time of global environmental changes
and possibly substantial coeval volcanism. The extent of the biological turnover in marine …

[HTML][HTML] On the causes of mass extinctions

DPG Bond, SE Grasby - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2017 - Elsevier
The temporal link between large igneous province (LIP) eruptions and at least half of the
major extinctions of the Phanerozoic implies that large scale volcanism is the main driver of …

The triassic period

JG Ogg, ZQ Chen, MJ Orchard, HS Jiang - Geologic time scale 2020, 2020 - Elsevier
The Triassic is bound by two mass extinctions that coincide with vast outpourings of volcanic
flood basalts. The Mesozoic begins with a gradual recovery of plant and animal life after the …

Dinosaur diversification linked with the Carnian Pluvial Episode

M Bernardi, P Gianolla, FM Petti, P Mietto… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Dinosaurs diversified in two steps during the Triassic. They originated about 245 Ma, during
the recovery from the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, and then remained insignificant until …

Climate warming, euxinia and carbon isotope perturbations during the Carnian (Triassic) Crisis in South China

YD Sun, PB Wignall, MM Joachimski, DPG Bond… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Carnian Humid Episode (CHE), also known as the Carnian Pluvial Event, and
associated biotic changes are major enigmas of the Mesozoic record in western Tethys. We …

Multiple negative carbon-isotope excursions during the Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic)

J Dal Corso, P Gianolla, M Rigo, M Franceschi… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Carnian Pluvial Episode was a phase of global climatic change and biotic
turnover that occurred during the early Late Triassic. In marine sedimentary basins, the …

[HTML][HTML] The origin of endothermy in synapsids and archosaurs and arms races in the Triassic

MJ Benton - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Birds and mammals are key elements of modern ecosystems, and many biologists explain
their great success by their endothermy, or warm-bloodedness. New palaeontological …

Decoupled taxonomic and ecological recoveries from the Permo-Triassic extinction

H Song, PB Wignall, AM Dunhill - Science advances, 2018 - science.org
The Permian-Triassic mass extinction was the worst crisis faced by life; it killed> 90% of
marine species in less than 0.1 million years (Ma). However, knowledge of its …

The stratigraphic puzzle of the permo-mesozoic southwestern Gondwana: The Paraná Basin record in geotectonic and palaeoclimatic context

CMS Scherer, AD Reis, BLD Horn, G Bertolini… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The compilation of stratigraphic, sedimentologic, paleontologic and geochronological data
allows the proposal of a regional stratigraphic framework for the Late Permian to Lower …