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The Beginning of the age of dinosaurs : faunal change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary

1986; Cambridge University Press; Linguagem: Inglês

Kevin Padian,

Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Preface Introduction Part I. The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: The Time and the Setting: 1. Historical aspects of the Triassic-Jurassic boundary problem Edwin H. Colbert 2. Fossil plants and the Triassic-Jurassic boundary Sidney Ash Part II. Late Triassic Vertebrate Taxa and Faunas: 3. Thoughts on the origin of the Theropoda Samuel P. Welles 4. Structure and function of the tarsus in the phytosaurs (Reptilia: Archosauria) J. Michael Parrish 5. On the type material of Coelophysis Cope (Saurischis: Theropoda), and a new specimen from the Petrified Forest of Arizona (Late Triassic: Chinle Formation) Kevin Padian 6. The ichnogenus Atreipus and its significance for Triassic biostratigraphy Paul E. Olsen and Donald Baird 7. The limb posture of kannemeyeriid dicynodonts: functional and ecological considerations Laurie R. Walter 8. A new family of mammals from the lower part of the French Rhaetic Denise Sigogneau-Russell, R. M. Frank and J. Hemmerle 9. Vertebrate paleontology of the Dockum Group, western Texas and eastern New Mexico Phillip A. Murry 10. The Late Triassic Dockum vertebrates: their stratigraphic and paleobiogeographic significance Sankar Chatterjee 11. A new vertenrate fauna from the Dockum Formation (Late Triasssic) of eastern New Mexico J. Michael Parrish and Kenneth Carpenter 12. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: preliminary results R. A. Long and Kevin Padian Part III. Taxa and Trends Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary: 13. Triassic and Jurassic fishes: patterns of diversity Amy R. McCune and Bobb Schaeffer 14. Triassic and Early Jurassic turtles Eugene S. Gaffney 15. Archosaur footprints at the terrestrial Triassic-Jurassic transition Hartmut Haubold 16. Herbivorous adaptations of Late Triassic and Early Jurassic dinosaurs Pater M. Galton 17. Masticatory apparatus of the larger herbivores during Late Triassic and early Jurassic times A. W. Crompton and J. Attridge 18. On Triassic and Jurassic mammals William A. Clemens Part IV. Early Jurassic Vertebrate Taxa and Faunas: 19. The early radiation and phylogenetic relationships of the Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs, based on vertebral anatomy Jose F. Bonaparte 20. Earliest records of Batrachopus from the southwestern United States, and a revision of some early Mesozoic crocodylomorph ichnogenera Paul E. Olsen and Kevin Padian 21. A brief introduction to the Lower Lufeng saurischian fauna (Lower Jurassic: Lufeng, Yunnan, People's Republic of China) A. L. Sun and K. H. Cui 22. Relationships and biostratigraphic significance of the Tritylodontidae (Synapsida) from the Kayenta Formation of northeastern Arizona Hans Dieter Sues 23. Vertebrate biostrarigraphy of the Glen canyon Group in northern Arizona James M. Clark and David E. Fastovsky Part V. Macroevolutionary Patterns of the Triassic-Jurassic Transition: 24. The Late Triassic tetrapod extinction events Michael J. Benton 25. Correlation of continental Late Triassic and Early Jurassic sediments, and patterns of the Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod transition Paul E. Olsen and Hans-Dieter Sues 26. Terrestrial vertebrate faunal succession during the Triassic J. M. Zawiskie Summary and prospectus Taxonomic index Ichnotaxonomic index.