Publication Date:
1999-10-26
Description:
The discovery of a Middle to Late Triassic ( approximately 225 to 230 million years old) terrestrial vertebrate fauna from Madagascar is reported. This fauna documents a temporal interval not well represented by continental vertebrate assemblages elsewhere in the world. It contains two new prosauropod dinosaurs, representing some of the earliest dinosaur occurrences known globally. This assemblage provides information about the poorly understood transition to the dinosaur-dominated faunas of the latest Triassic.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Flynn -- Parrish -- Rakotosamimanana -- Simpson -- Whatley -- Wyss -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Oct 22;286(5440):763-765.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Geology, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 60605, USA. Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA. Departement de Paleontologie et d'Anthropologie Biologique, Universite d'Antananarivo, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar. Department of Geology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10531059" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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