Unexpected Early Triassic marine ecosystem and the rise of the Modern evolutionary fauna

Brayard, Arnaud; J. Krumenacker, Laurel; P. Botting, Joseph; F. Jenks, James; G. Bylund, Kevin; Fara, Emmanuel; Vennin, Emmanuelle; Olivier, Nicolas; Goudemand, Nicolas; Saucède, Thomas; Charbonnier, Sylvain; Romano, Carlo; A. Doguzhaeva, Larisa; Thuy, Ben; Hautmann, Michael; A. Stephen, Daniel; Thomazo, Christophe; Escarguel, Gilles

doi:10.1126/sciadv.1602159

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Unexpected Early Triassic marine ecosystem and the rise of the Modern evolutionary fauna

Published in Science Advances • Feb 3, 2017

Authors:

Arnaud Brayard

Laurel J. Krumenacker

Joseph P. Botting

Abstract

In the wake of the end-Permian mass extinction, the Early Triassic (~251.9 to 247 million years ago) is portrayed as an environmentally unstable interval characterized by several biotic crises and heavily depauperate marine benthic ecosystems. We describe a new fossil assemblage-the Paris Biota-from...

Subject

Phyletic gradualism

Ecosystem

Fauna

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