A triassic fauna from Madagascar, including early dinosaurs

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Flynn, JJ [1 ]
Parrish, JM
Rakotosamimanana, B
Simpson, WF
Whatley, RL
Wyss, AR
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[1] Field Museum Nat Hist, Dept Geol, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
[2] No Illinois Univ, Dept Biol Sci, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA
[3] Univ Antananarivo, Dept Paleontol & Anthropol Biol, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar
[4] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Geol, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
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10.1126/science.286.5440.763
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The discovery of a Middle to Late Triassic (similar to 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.
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