Triassic Life on Land (eBook)

The Great Transition

Hans-Dieter Sues, Nicholas Fraser (Autoren)

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2010
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-50941-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The Triassic period is generally viewed as the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs. For paleontologists, however, it also marks the rise of the world's first modern land ecosystems.Over the past three decades, extensive, worldwide fieldwork has led to the discovery of many new species of Triassic animals and plants, suggesting that faunal and floral changes already began in the Middle Triassic and were more protracted than previously thought. The Late Triassic is a pivotal time in the evolution of life on land, with many of the major groups of present-day vertebrates and insects first appearing in the fossil record. This book provides the first detailed overview of life on land during the Triassic period for advanced students and researchers. Noted vertebrate paleontologists Hans-Dieter Sues and Nicholas C. Fraser also review the biotic changes of this period and their possible causes.

Autor

Hans-Dieter Sues is Senior Scientist and Curator in the Department of Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and co-editor, with Nicholas C. Fraser, of In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods.

Inhalt

Preface1. Introduction2. Early and Early Middle Triassic in Gondwana3. Early and Early Middle Triassic in Laurasia4. Late Middle and Late Triassic of Gondwana5. Late Middle and Late Triassic of Europe6. Late Triassic of Great Britain7. Triassic of the Central Atlantic Margin System8. Late Triassic of the Western United States9. Two Extraordinary Windows into Triassic Life10. Biotic Changes During the Triassic Period11. The End of the Triassic: Out with a Bang or a Whimper?GlossaryReferencesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology
• Zusatzinfo: 115 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
• ISBN-10: 0-231-50941-3 / 0231509413
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-50941-1 / 9780231509411