A Triassic Fauna from Madagascar, Including Early Dinosaurs
- 22 October 1999
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 286 (5440) , 763-765
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.286.5440.763
Abstract
The discovery of a Middle to Late Triassic (∼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.Keywords
This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
- A Middle Jurassic mammal from MadagascarNature, 1999
- Predatory Dinosaur Remains from Madagascar: Implications for the Cretaceous Biogeography of GondwanaScience, 1998
- Cosmopolitanism among Gondwanan Late Cretaceous mammalsNature, 1997
- The first Cretaceous bird from MadagascarNature, 1996
- The Ischigualasto Tetrapod Assemblage (Late Triassic, Argentina) and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar Dating of Dinosaur OriginsScience, 1993
- New prosauropod material from South WalesZoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1984
- On Bones of a Sauropodous Dinosaur from MadagascarQuarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 1895