A late-surviving phytosaur from the northern Atlantic rift reveals climate constraints on Triassic reptile biogeography
Abstract Background The origins of all major living reptile clades, including the one leading to birds, lie in the Triassic. Following the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history at the end of the Permian, the earliest definite members of the three major living reptile clades, the turtles (Testud...
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Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-07-01
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Series: | BMC Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02136-8 |