Late Triassic–Early Jurassic continental vertebrates and their environmental context from the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, NW China

PE Olsen, J Sha, Y Fang, C Chang… - Geological Society …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
Vertebrate assemblages from the Junggar Basin in Xinjiang, China, are the only ones
known from palaeo-Arctic continental strata of Late Triassic and Early Jurassic age. Here we …

The earliest equatorial record of frogs from the Late Triassic of Arizona

MR Stocker, SJ Nesbitt, BT Kligman… - Biology …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Crown-group frogs (Anura) originated over 200 Ma according to molecular phylogenetic
analyses, though only a few fossils from high latitudes chronicle the first approximately 60 …

Skeletal Anatomy of Acaenasuchus Geoffreyi Long and Murry, 1995 (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) and its Implications for the Origin of the Aetosaurian Carapace

AD Marsh, ME Smith, WG Parker, RB Irmis… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Acaenasuchus geoffreyi is a diminutive armored archosaur from the Upper Triassic Chinle
Formation of northern Arizona, USA, with uncertain evolutionary relationships and skeletal …

Using manual ungual morphology to predict substrate use in the Drepanosauromorpha and the description of a new species

XA Jenkins, AC Pritchard, AD Marsh… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Fossils of drepanosauromorphs, a clade of non-saurian diapsids, were once considered
relatively rare in the Chinle Formation of the southwestern United States as well as in Upper …

New trilophosaurid species demonstrates a decline in allokotosaur diversity across the Adamanian-Revueltian boundary in the Late Triassic of western North America

BT Kligman, AD Marsh, SJ Nesbitt, WG Parker… - Palaeodiversity, 2020 - BioOne
Abstract Allokotosauria, including Trilophosauridae and Azendohsauridae, is an extinct
archosauromorph group that reached a near-Pangean distribution in the Middle Triassic to …

A new species of Palacrodon and a unique form of tooth attachment in reptiles

KM Jenkins, CJ Bell, PJ Hancox… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Palacrodon, a near-crown stem reptile, is known from several Triassic sites across the globe,
and is easily recognized by its dentition characterized by labiolingually expanded …

New sphenodontian (Reptilia: Lepidosauria) from a novel Late Triassic paleobiota in western North America sheds light on the earliest radiation of herbivorous …

BT Kligman, WC McClure, M Korbitz… - Journal of …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Herbivory is a common ecological function among extant lepidosaurs, but little is known
about the origin of this feeding strategy within Lepidosauria. Here we describe a …

[PDF][PDF] First records of diapsid Palacrodon from the Norian, Late Triassic Chinle Formation of Arizona, and their biogeographic implications

BT Kiligman, AD Marsh, WG Parker - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2018 - bibliotekanauki.pl
Vertebrates from the Triassic Period have broadly disparate tooth shapes and dentition
patterns, the result of intense morphospace experimentation following the Permo-Triassic …

Morphological and histological description of small metoposaurids from Petrified Forest National Park, AZ, USA and the taxonomy of Apachesaurus

BM Gee, WG Parker - Historical Biology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Metoposaurids are Late Triassic temnospondyls that are abundant components
of freshwater depositional settings. Although metoposaurids are represented by hundreds of …

The predatory fish Saurichthys reflects a complex underwater ecosystem of the Late Triassic Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China

G Fang, F Wu - Historical Biology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The iconic saurichthyid fishes ('lizard fish') are specialised predators in the aquatic realm of
Early Mesozoic era. After a rapid diversification in the Middle Triassic, they seemingly shrank …