The beginning of the 'Age of Dinosaurs': A brief overview of terrestrial biotic changes during the Triassic

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 189-200

  Fraser, Nicholas C ^a   Sues, Hans Dieter ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

extinctions; insects; Pangaea; plants; tetrapods

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BIOTIC FACTOR; DINOSAUR; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; INSECT; MESOZOIC; PALEOZOIC; PLANT; TETRAPOD; TRIASSIC;

CROCODYLIFORMES; DINOSAURIA; DINOSAUROMORPHA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOSAURIA; TESTUDINES; TETRAPODA; THERAPSIDA;

EID: 79959404100     PISSN: 17556910     EISSN: 17556929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755691011020019     Document Type: Article

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