Top Results for Triassic

Ryōsuke Motani is a paleontologist and professor at the University of California, Davis, specializing in the evolution and biomechanics of marine reptiles. His research combines approaches from physics, engineering, and paleontology to reconstruct how extinct marine creatures like ichthyosaurs funct...

Richard J. Butler is a British vertebrate paleontologist serving as a professor at the University of Birmingham. His academic research is primarily focused on the macroevolution, early origins, and diversification of archosaurs, specifically during the Triassic period. He is noted for his extensive...

Olivier Rieppel is a Swiss paleontologist who served as a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. His research specializes in vertebrate paleontology, specifically the evolution, phylogeny, and interrelationships of extinct marine reptiles. He is widely recognized for his extensiv...

James Kitching was a South African paleontologist known for fieldwork in the Karoo Basin and for research on Permian and Triassic vertebrates, especially therapsids and cynodonts. His expeditions and fossil collecting helped expand the documented record of South Africa's land vertebrates and supplie...

Ischigualasto Provincial Park is a protected badlands landscape in San Juan Province, Argentina, noted for exposed rock sequences from the Triassic Period. Together with neighboring Talampaya National Park, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000. Its sedimentary formations preser...

Paul E. Olsen is an American paleontologist and geologist who currently serves as a professor at Columbia University. He is noted for his extensive research on the Newark Supergroup, utilizing fossils and lake sediments to reconstruct Late Triassic and Early Jurassic ecosystems. His work heavily foc...

The Manicouagan Crater is a massive impact structure in Quebec, Canada dating back to the Triassic period. Its exceptional size—approximately 130 kilometers across—makes it one of the largest known impact craters on Earth. Scientists study it to understand ancient impacts and their effects on planet...

Talampaya National Park is a protected area in La Rioja Province, Argentina, characterized by red sandstone cliffs, broad canyons, and dry desert terrain. Together with neighboring Ischigualasto Provincial Park, it forms the Ischigualasto-Talampaya UNESCO World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2000. Its...

Valle de la Luna is a popular name for the eroded landscape of Ischigualasto Provincial Park in San Juan Province, Argentina. Its exposed gray and ochre sedimentary formations, isolated rock shapes, and sparse vegetation produce the moonlike appearance reflected in the name. The park forms part of t...

Friedrich von Huene was a German vertebrate paleontologist whose extensive 20th-century research addressed dinosaurs, early archosaurs, and other fossil reptiles. He described and classified numerous specimens, with particular attention to Triassic vertebrates and the evolutionary relationships of m...

Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki is a Polish paleontologist whose work concerns fossil vertebrates and the history of early land-dwelling tetrapods. He is associated with research on well-preserved Early Triassic footprints from the Holy Cross Mountains of Poland, including trackways attributed to dinosauromor...

Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis was a carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic, approximately 231 million years ago, in what is now northwestern Argentina. Fossils come from the Ischigualasto Formation and include relatively complete skeletons that reveal a lightly built, bipedal pre...

Tomasz Sulej is a Polish vertebrate paleontologist at the Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research covers Triassic labyrinthodonts, early Mesozoic tetrapods, and the origin and evolution of archosauriforms. He has contributed to the study of the Late Triassic predato...

Eoraptor lunensis is a small early dinosaur from the Late Triassic Ischigualasto Formation of northwestern Argentina, dating to about 231 million years ago. The specimen catalogued as PVSJ 512 is the substantially complete skeleton used as the holotype when the species was described. Its mixture of...

Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia is an Italian vertebrate paleontologist known for his extensive research on prehistoric reptiles. His primary area of expertise lies in the study of Triassic and Cretaceous pterosaurs, particularly those discovered in the Adriatic region and Italy. He has described and name...

Rodrigo Temp Müller is a Brazilian paleontologist whose research focuses on Triassic vertebrate evolution, especially archosauriforms and dinosauromorphs from southern Brazil. He has coauthored descriptions of fossil material from the Upper Triassic, including a new dinosauriform record relevant to...

Alan H. Turner is a vertebrate paleontologist and professor at Stony Brook University. His research reconstructs the anatomy, phylogeny, and life history of theropod dinosaurs and crocodylomorphs, with additional work on archosaur body-size evolution and historical biogeography. His dinosaur studies...

Alexander Sharov was a Soviet paleontologist associated with the Paleontological Institute in Moscow. He specialized in the study of fossil insects and unusual Late Triassic reptiles from Central Asia. His most notable discoveries include the descriptions of the pterosaur Sordes, the early reptile S...

Tanystropheus hydroides was a large marine or shoreline-dwelling archosauromorph from the Middle Triassic of Europe. Its exceptionally long neck consisted of only 13 greatly elongated vertebrae and accounted for roughly half of an adult's body length, which could approach six metres. Skull anatomy a...

Thrinaxodon liorhinus was a small cynodont synapsid from the Early Triassic, known principally from South Africa and Antarctica. Its skeleton combined reptile-like features with traits approaching those of mammals, including differentiated teeth and changes to the jaw and palate. Small pits and cana...

Morganucodon watsoni was a small, insect-eating mammaliaform that lived around the Triassic-Jurassic boundary and is particularly well represented by fossils from Wales. Its jaws show the mammalian dentary-squamosal joint while retaining small postdentary bones associated with the ancestral jaw arti...

Randall B. Irmis is an American vertebrate paleontologist and curator of paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Utah, as well as a faculty member at the University of Utah. His research examines Late Triassic terrestrial ecosystems, the early diversification of dinosaurs, and the relationship...

Massospondylus carinatus is an early sauropodomorph dinosaur known from Early Jurassic rocks in southern Africa, especially South Africa and Lesotho. It had a long neck and tail, a relatively small head, grasping hands, and a body plan associated with the evolutionary lineage that later produced sau...

Cynognathus crateronotus was a large, predatory cynodont that lived during the Triassic Period and belonged to the synapsid lineage leading toward mammals. Fossils assigned to Cynognathus are particularly well known from South Africa, with related occurrences across parts of Gondwana, including Sout...

Adam M. Yates is a vertebrate paleontologist and dinosaur systematist associated with the Museum of Central Australia in Alice Springs. He is a coauthor of the 2009 scientific description of Aardonyx celestae, an Early Jurassic sauropodomorph from the upper Elliot Formation of South Africa. That res...

Elizabeth Nicholls was a prominent Canadian paleontologist who served as a curator at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta. She specialized in the study of prehistoric marine reptiles, conducting significant research on Triassic ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. Nicholls is particularly...

Shonisaurus popularis is a large ichthyosaur from the Late Triassic Luning Formation of Nevada, United States, formally named in 1976. Adults reached approximately 15 meters in length and had an elongated body, long narrow flippers, and a skull proportionally smaller than those of many earlier ichth...

Neil P. Kelley is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who studies extinct marine reptiles, with particular attention to ichthyosaurs and other Triassic forms. He has been affiliated with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and has published research on Lower Triassic ichthyopt...

Andrea Beatriz Arcucci is an Argentine paleontologist and researcher at the National University of San Luis. Her work includes the anatomy, systematics, and paleobiology of basal archosaurs and other Triassic vertebrates, as well as taphonomy, the study of how fossil remains are preserved. She has p...