Exceptional vertebrate biotas from the Triassic of China, and the expansion of marine ecosystems after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction

MJ Benton, Q Zhang, S Hu, ZQ Chen, W Wen, J Liu… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Triassic was a time of turmoil, as life recovered from the most devastating of all mass
extinctions, the Permo-Triassic event 252 million years ago. The Triassic marine rock …

[PDF][PDF] Phylogeny, systematics, and origin of the Ichthyosauria–the state of the art

MW Maisch - Palaeodiversity, 2010 - palaeodiversity.org
A historical overview and a synopsis of the current knowledge on the phylogeny,
systematics, and phylogenetic position of the Ichthyosauria are presented. All known …

Greenhouse crises of the past 300 million years

GJ Retallack - Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Proxies of past CO2 and climate over the past 300 my now reveal multiple global climate
change events in unprecedented detail. Evidence for past CO2 spikes comes from …

A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs (Reptilia: Diapsida)

BC Moon - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The largest phylogenetic analysis of ichthyosaurs to date is presented, with 114 ingroup taxa
coded at species level. Completeness of the taxa included varied from> 98% to< 2%; 10 …

Emergence and ecological transition of the Mesozoic marine reptiles: Evidence from the Early Triassic Chaohu and the Middle Triassic Xingyi Faunas

D Jiang, M Zhou, R Motani, A Tintori, NC Fraser… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Two major evolutionary events in the early history of Mesozoic marine reptiles have been
recorded in the Triassic of China. The first event evidenced by the Early Triassic Chaohu …

Biodiversity and sequence of the Middle Triassic Panxian marine reptile fauna, Guizhou Province, China

D Jiang, R Motani, W Hao, O Rieppel… - Acta Geologica …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The Middle Triassic Panxian fauna is a physical marker and representative record of the
rapid recovery of the Triassic marine ecosystem following the Early Triassic stagnant stage …

First record of placodontoidea (Reptilia, Sauropterygia, Placodontia) from the eastern Tethys

DY Jiang, R Motani, WC Hao, O Rieppel… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
DA-YONG JIANG,*, 1 RYOSUKE MOTANI, 2 WEI-CHENG HAO, 1 OLIVIER RIEPPEL, 3
YUAN-LIN SUN, 1 LARS SCHMITZ, 2 and ZUO-YU SUN1 1Department of Geology and …

Dinocephalosaurus orientalis Li, 2003: a remarkable marine archosauromorph from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China

SNF Spiekman, W Wei, Z Lijun, O Rieppel… - … Transactions of the …, 2024 - cambridge.org
The non-archosauriform archosauromorph Dinocephalosaurus orientalis was first described
from the Upper Member of the Guanling Formation (late Anisian, Middle Triassic) of Guizhou …

Tanystropheus cf. T. longobardicus from the early Late Triassic of Guizhou Province, southwestern China

O Rieppel, DY Jiang, NC Fraser, WC Hao… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The protorosaur Tanystropheus longobardicus is well known from the Middle Triassic of
alpine Europe. It has been described on the basis of a number of specimens that apparently …

A new mixosaurid ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic of China

DY Jiang, L Schmitz, WC Hao… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
We describe the new ichthyosaur taxon Mixosaurus panxianensis, sp. nov., from the Middle
Triassic of Guizhou Province, China. Diagnostic characters of the new species include a …