Craniodental anatomy in Permian–Jurassic Cynodontia and Mammaliaformes (Synapsida, Therapsida) as a gateway to defining mammalian soft tissue and …

LA Norton, F Abdala, J Benoit - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mammals are diagnosed by more than 30 osteological characters (eg squamosal-dentary
jaw joint, three inner ear ossicles, etc.) that are readily preserved in the fossil record …

U-Pb dating of pedogenic calcite near the Permian–Triassic boundary, Karoo Basin, South Africa

H Rochín-Bañaga, RA Gastaldo, DW Davis… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We report U-Pb age determinations of carbonate nodules from an in situ paleosol horizon in
the Upper Permian Balfour Formation and from several horizons of pedogenic nodule …

Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries

K Curry Rogers, RN Martínez, C Colombi, RR Rogers… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Dinosauria debuted on Earth's stage in the aftermath of the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction
Event, and survived two other Triassic extinction intervals to eventually dominate terrestrial …

Paleozoic cave system preserves oldest-known evidence of amniote skin

ED Mooney, T Maho, RP Philp, JJ Bevitt, RR Reisz - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
The richest and most diverse assemblage of early terrestrial tetrapods is preserved within
the infilled cave system of Richards Spur, Oklahoma (289–286 Mya 1). Some of the oldest …

The Fremouw Formation of Antarctica: Updated vertebrate fossil record and reevaluation of high-latitude Permian–Triassic paleoenvironments

CA Sidor, JA McIntosh, BM Gee, WR Hammer… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Permian–Triassic rocks of the Transantarctic Basin provide an unparalleled record of high
latitude paleoenvironments and terrestrial vertebrate faunas. Here we summarize the …

A reinterpretation of taphonomy and palaeoecology of the early Carnian Santacruzodon Assemblage Zone type-locality from the Santa Maria Supersequence, Brazil

F Battista, AM Ribeiro, TP Melo, CL Schultz - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sampling bias and repeated resampling can lead to misinterpretation of the taphonomic
history of a fossiliferous deposit. This is the case of the Schoenstatt Sanctuary site (Santa …

Early–middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids

R Matamales-Andreu, CF Kammerer… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Therapsids were a dominant component of middle–late Permian terrestrial ecosystems
worldwide, eventually giving rise to mammals during the early Mesozoic. However, little is …

Selected Karoo geoheritage sites of palaeontological significance in South Africa and Lesotho

EM Bordy, RMH Smith, JN Choiniere… - Geological Society …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The main Karoo Basin of South Africa and Lesotho preserves c. 120 myr of Earth's
history. The sedimentary rocks of its Karoo Supergroup record massive environmental …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of taphonomy and time on the paleobotanical record of the Permian–Triassic transition of the Karoo Basin (and elsewhere)

RA Gastaldo, MK Bamford - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Terrestrial fossil assemblages preserved in the upper Permian–Lower Triassic strata of the
Karoo Basin, South Africa, have played a central role in the interpretation of ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Re-assessing the age of the type locality of Nythosaurus larvatus (Therapsida, Cynodontia) and implications on the evolutionary dynamics of cynodonts

J Benoit, S Jirah, ES Lund, T Lafferty, V Buffa… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nythosaurus larvatus was one of the first cynodonts named and, for a long time, the only
therapsid for which the endocranial cast was described. The holotype and only skull of this …