The oldest unequivocal records of Dinosauria were unearthed from Late Triassic rocks
(approximately 230 Ma) accumulated over extensional rift basins in southwestern Pangea …

Abstract The Paraná Basin was filled by a sedimentary package deposited in successive
sedimentation episodes related to the tectonic events that hit the SW portion of the …

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment.
This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million year long fossil record that documents …

Triassic beds from Argentina and Brazil provide the most relevant fossil record of early
dinosauriforms in terms of numerical abundance and taxonomic diversity. This record …

Abstract Fossil discoveries from South Africa have greatly expanded knowledge of the
development of life on Earth. In particular, the enormous palaeontological wealth of the …

The Santacruzodon assemblage zone was originally defined as a vertebrate fossil
assemblage composed basically of non-mammalian cynodonts found in Santa Cruz do Sul …

The Rosário do Sul Group is one of the better-known tetrapod-bearing continental deposits
of Triassic age. It crops out in central Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil, and has yielded a …

The Triassic timescale based on nonmarine tetrapod biostratigraphy and biochronology
divides Triassic time into eight land-vertebrate faunachrons (LVFs) with boundaries defined …

Proterochampsidae is a clade of non‐archosaurian archosauriforms restricted to the Middle
to the Late Triassic of the Ischigualasto‐Villa Unión Basin of Argentina and the Santa Maria …