A New Placodont from the Late Triassic of China

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Wang, W., Li, C., Scheyer, T. M., and Zhao, L. 2019. A new species of Cyamodus (Placodontia, Sauropterygia) from the early Late Triassic of...

Platypus-like Hupehsuchian from Early Triassic of China

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Cheng, L., Motani, R.,  Jiang, D., Yan, C., Tintori, A. and O. Rieppel. 2019. Early Triassic marine reptile representing the oldest record o...

Histological Evidence of Trauma in Dicynodont Tusks

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Whitney, M. R., Ting Tse, Y., and C. A. Sidor. 2019. Histological evidence of trauma in tusks of southern African dicynodonts. Palaeontologi...

Examining Functional Convergence Between Triassic Phytosaurs and Slender-Snouted Crocodylians

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A new preprint in PeerJ. Lemanis R., Jones A.S., Butler R.J., Anderson P.S.L., and E.J. Rayfield. 2019. Comparative biomechanical analys...

Why are Temnospondyl Skulls Bumpy?

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Today Bryan Gee at Temno Talk Blog discusses and evaluates the various hypotheses of why temnospondyl skulls (and other bones) have heavily...

Triassic Park is Temporarily Closed: What Happens at Petrified Forest During a Government Shutdown

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[Disclaimer: I am a furloughed Federal employee and this is a personal blog. It is not my intent to take a political side or to make a a pol...

Extinction and the Rise of Dinosaurs - What Will the Microvertebrates Tell Us?

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Brian Switek has a great year end article  (based mainly on the recent Allen et al., study in Palaeontology) regarding the loss of most pse...

New Blog TemnoTalk: A Blog About All Things Temnospondyl

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Introducing a new blog by my friend and colleague Bryan Gee from the University of Toronto. Since his first find of half of a metoposaur sku...

New Osteological and Phylogenetic Review of the Triassic Loricatan Prestosuchus chiniquensis from Brazil

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Roberto-Da-Silva, L., Müller , R. T., Gallo de França, M. A., Cabreira, S. F., and Dias-Da-Silva, S. 2018.  An impressive skeleton of the g...

Ichnofossil Assemblages and Paleosols of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, South-Eastern Utah

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Adding to our understanding of the understudied Chinle Formation fossils of Utah. Fischer, S. J. and S. T. Hasiotis 2018. Ichnofossil a...

Expanding the Late Triassic Record of the Dinosaur Precursor Dromomeron romeri: A New Record from the Chinle Formation of Arizona.

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A new open access paper from my co-worker, friend, and colleague Adam Marsh documenting a new record of the dinosaur precursor Dromomeron r...

Fuyuanichthys wangi A New Ginklymodian Fish from the Middle Triassic of China

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Xu, G., Ma, X., and Y. Ren. 2018. Fuyuanichthys wangi gen. et sp. nov. from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of China highlights the early di...

New Specimen of Prolacerta broomi from the Early Triassic of Antarctica

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Spiekman, S. N. F. 2018. A new specimen of Prolacerta broomi from the lower Fremouw Formation (Early Triassic) of Antarctica, its biogeogr...

Further Investigating the Biogeographic Origins of Dinosauria

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New paper out in Palaeontology. Marsola, J. C., Ferreira, G. S., Langer, M. C., Button, D. J., and R. J. Butler. 2018. Increases in sampli...