Palaeontology: Dinosaurs, Boneheads and Recovery from Extinction

Mike J Benton

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.029

Palaeontology: Dinosaurs, Boneheads and Recovery from Extinction

Mike J Benton

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Summary The Triassic was a time of turmoil, as life recovered from near-annihilation. Archosauromorph reptiles flourished and diversified as they filled empty ecological niches, and some of them presaged later dinosaurian inventions, such as thickened skull roofs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R887-R889
Number of pages	3
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	26
Issue number	19
Early online date	10 Oct 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.029
Publication status	Published - 10 Oct 2016

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