Thalattosauria in time and space: a review of thalattosaur spatiotemporal occurrences, presumed evolutionary relationships and current ecological hypotheses

Abstract In the wake of the greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history, the End-Permian Mass Extinction, the Triassic was a time of recovery and innovation. Aided by warm climatic conditions and favorable ecological circumstances, many reptilian clades originated and rapidly diversified during this...

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Main Author: Dylan Bastiaans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2024-09-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-024-00333-6