The Late Triassic World: Earth in a Time of Transition (Topics in Geobiology Book 46)

Annotation This volume presents the latest science on all significant geological and paleontological aspects of the Earth during the Late Triassic Period. Rather than presenting a collection of narrowly focused research papers, the volume consists of a series of peer-reviewed chapters on specific aspects of the Late Triassic world (e.g., tectonics, magmatism, paleobotany, climate, etc.), all authored by experts in the subject of their respective chapters. Each chapter reviews and summarizes the latest findings in these fields and also includes a review of the pertinent literature. The author list is very broadly international and forms a veritable who's who of expertise in these fields. The book is loosely organized to present the physical aspects of Earth during the Late Triassic at the outset, followed by the paleontological aspects. The latter section is further organized to present the record of the marine environment first before moving onto land, with fauna followed by flora. The volume closes with a review of the end-Triassic extinctions Front Matter ....Pages i-xi The Late Triassic Timescale (Spencer G. Lucas)....Pages 1-25 Late Triassic Global Plate Tectonics (Jan Golonka, Ashton Embry, Michał Krobicki)....Pages 27-57 Climates of the Late Triassic: Perspectives, Proxies and Problems (Lawrence H. Tanner)....Pages 59-90 The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP): A Review (Andrea Marzoli, Sara Callegaro, Jacopo Dal Corso, Joshua H. F. L. Davies, Massimo Chiaradia, Nassrrdine Youbi et al.)....Pages 91-125 Distal Processes and Effects of Multiple Late Triassic Terrestrial Bolide Impacts: Insights from the Norian Manicouagan Event, Northeastern Quebec, Canada (Michael J. Clutson, David E. Brown, Lawrence H. Tanner)....Pages 127-187 New Upper Triassic Conodont Biozonation of the Tethyan Realm (Manuel Rigo, Michele Mazza, Viktor Karádi, Alda Nicora)....Pages 189-235 Late Triassic Ammonoids: Distribution, Biostratigraphy and Biotic Events (Spencer G. Lucas)....Pages 237-261 Late Triassic Marine Reptiles (Silvio Renesto, Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia)....Pages 263-313 The Zorzino Limestone Actinopterygian Fauna from the Late Triassic (Norian) of the Southern Alps (Andrea Tintori, Cristina Lombardo)....Pages 315-350 Late Triassic Terrestrial Tetrapods: Biostratigraphy, Biochronology and Biotic Events (Spencer G. Lucas)....Pages 351-405 The Late Triassic Record of Cynodonts: Time of Innovations in the Mammalian Lineage (Fernando Abdala, Leandro C. Gaetano)....Pages 407-445 Late Triassic Nonmarine Vertebrate and Invertebrate Trace Fossils and the Pattern of the Phanerozoic Record of Vertebrate Trace Fossils (Adrian P. Hunt, Spencer G. Lucas, Hendrik Klein)....Pages 447-544 Flora of the Late Triassic (Evelyn Kustatscher, Sidney R. Ash, Eugeny Karasev, Christian Pott, Vivi Vajda, Jianxin Yu et al.)....Pages 545-622 Expansion of Arthropod Herbivory in Late Triassic South Africa: The Molteno Biota, Aasvoëlberg 411 Site and Developmental Biology of a Gall (Conrad C. Labandeira, John M. Anderson, Heidi M. Anderson)....Pages 623-719 The Missing Mass Extinction at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary (Spencer G. Lucas, Lawrence H. Tanner)....Pages 721-785 Back Matter ....Pages 787-805