The 'rauisuchians' are a group of Triassic pseudosuchian archosaurs that displayed a near global distribution. Their problematic taxonomic resolution comes from the fact that most taxa are represented only by a few and/or mostly incomplete specimens. In the last few decades, renewed interest in early archosaur evolution has helped to clarify some of these problems, but further studies on the ta...

Historically, footprint-bearing localities in eastern and western North America and southern Thuringia and northern Bavaria have played pivotal roles in Triassic archosaur footprint research. In a nearly complete sequence of formations and footprint-horizons in the Moenkopi Group (U.S.A.), Newark Supergroup (U.S.A. and Canada), and Buntsandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper groups (Olenekian to Nor...

The Newark-APTS established a high-resolution framework for the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic. Palaeomagnetic polarity correlations to marine sections show that stage-level correlations of continental sequences were off by as much as 10 million years. New U–Pb ages show the new correlations and the Newark basin astrochronology to be accurate. Correlation of Newark-APTS to the Chinle Formatio...

Gliding adaptations in thoracopterid flying fishes represent a remarkable case of convergent evolution of overwater gliding strategy with modern exocoetid flying fishes, but the evolutionary origin of this strategy was poorly known in the thoracopterids because of lack of transitional forms. Until recently, all thoracopterids, from the Late Triassic of Austria and Italy and the Middle Triassic ...

The oldest archosauromorphs (dinosaurs, birds, crocodiles, and their stem-taxa) are recorded in middle?upper Permian rocks, but it was not after the Permo?Triassic mass extinction that group shows a substantially high taxonomic richness ecomorphological disparity. early evolutionary history of Archosauromorpha during Early Middle Triassic is mainly based on fossils recovered from rocks southern...

The global Triassic timescale based on tetrapod biochronology remains a robust tool for both global and regional age assignment and correlation. The Lootsbergian and Nonesian land-vertebrate faunachrons (LVFs) are of Early Triassic age; cross correlation of part of the Lootsbergian to the Olenekian and all or part of the Nonesian to the Anisian lacks support. In the South African Karoo basin, b...

Fires are an integral part of modern and ancient ecosystems, serving as friends for renewal or foes complete destruction extinction. Indicators palaeowildfire were so far absent from the Lower Triassic. Lack plants in Early Triassic due to end-Permian mass extinction event low atmospheric oxygen levels proposed major reasons scarcity wildfires. We present macroscopic charcoals Olenekian (Lower ...

The Los Menucos Complex (North Patagonian Massif, Río Negro province, Argentina) has been long regarded as Late Triassic in age. A Dicynodontipus-dominated record is historically known from this complex and particularly the Puesto Tscherig locality. Here we report Vera site, where a new track-bearing horizon was discovered within 73-m-thick volcano-sedimentary succession. Footprints site are mo...

Reprocessed, regional, 2D seismic reflection profiles, 3D volumes and well data (exploration shallow boreholes), combined with structural restorations 1D backstripping were used to study the post-salt evolution of Nordkapp Basin in Barents Sea. The took place above a pre-salt basement basin configuration affected by multiple rift events that influenced depositional facies thickness Pennsylvania...

The Blue Nile Basin, situated in the Northwestern Ethiopian Plateau, contains 1400 m thick Mesozoic sedimentary section underlain by Neoproterozoic basement rocks and overlain by Early–Late Oligocene and Quaternary volcanic rocks. This study outlines the stratigraphic and structural evolution of the Blue Nile Basin based on field and remote sensing studies along the Gorge of the Nile. The Blue ...