The first dinosaurs in China: Dating Late Triassic footprint fossils from the Sichuan Basin

Arctic ice and the ecological rise of the dinosaurs

(2022) Paul Olsen et al.   Science Advances

Eustatic sea-level fall and global fluctuations in carbonate production during the Carnian Pluvial Episode

(2022) Xin Jin et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Onset of sedimentation near the Carnian/Norian boundary in the northwestern Sichuan Basin: New evidence from ammonoid biostratigraphy and zircon U Pb geochronology

(2021) Paolo Mietto et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A unique notostracan trace fossil assemblage from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation (northeastern Utah, USA) and its paleoecological and paleoenvironmental implications

(2021) Josephina Hartung et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Re-appraisal of Anthrophyopsis (Gymnospermae): New material from China and global fossil records

(2021) Yuanyuan Xu et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Carnian–Norian (Late Triassic) climate change: Evidence from conodont oxygen isotope thermometry with implications for reef development and Wrangellian tectonics

(2020) Y.D. Sun et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Palaeovegetation and palaeoclimate changes across the Triassic–Jurassic transition in the Sichuan Basin, China

(2020) Liqin Li et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic)

(2020) Jacopo Dal Corso et al.   Science Advances

Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria

(2020) Martín D. Ezcurra et al.   NATURE

Climatic drivers of latitudinal variation in Late Triassic tetrapod diversity

(2020) Emma M. Dunne et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Tectonic evolution of the Sichuan Basin, Southwest China

(2020) Shugen Liu et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Sedimentological and paleoecological aspects of the Norian–Rhaetian transition (Late Triassic) in the Xuanhan area of the Sichuan Basin, Southwest China

(2019) Ning Lu et al.   Palaeoworld

Climate and tectonic-driven deposition of sandwiched continental shale units: New insights from petrology, geochemistry, and integrated provenance analyses (the western Sichuan subsiding Basin, Southwest China)

(2019) Wei Yang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Formation of the Late Triassic western Sichuan foreland basin of the Qinling Orogenic Belt, SW China: Sedimentary and geochronological constraints from the Xujiahe Formation

(2019) Hongxu Mu et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Geochemical characteristics and organic matter enrichment mechanism of black shale in the Upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation in the Sichuan basin: Implications for paleoweathering, provenance and tectonic setting

(2019) Tao Deng et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

U-Pb age constraints on dinosaur rise from south Brazil

(2018) Max C. Langer et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The Carnian Pluvial Episode and the origin of dinosaurs

(2018) Michael J. Benton et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Dinosaur diversification linked with the Carnian Pluvial Episode

(2018) Massimo Bernardi et al.   Nature Communications

Late Triassic sauropodomorph and Middle Jurassic theropod tracks from the Xichang Basin, Sichuan Province, southwestern China: First report of the ichnogenus Carmelopodus

(2018) Li-Da Xing et al.   Journal of Palaeogeography-English

Demise of Late Triassic sponge mounds along the northwestern margin of the Yangtze Block, South China: Related to the Carnian Pluvial Phase?

(2017) Zhiqiang Shi et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Provenance change from the Middle to Late Triassic of the southwestern Sichuan basin, Southwest China: Constraints from the sedimentary record and its tectonic significance

(2017) Min Zhu et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Research on Dinoasur Footprints in Zizhou, Shaanxi Province, China

(2016) WANG Baopeng et al.   ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION

Tectonic architecture and multiple orogeny of the Qinling Orogenic Belt, Central China

(2016) Yunpeng Dong et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

New record of fossil wood Xenoxylon from the Late Triassic in the Sichuan Basin, southern China and its paleoclimatic implications

(2016) Ning Tian et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Late Triassic palynofloras in the Sichuan Basin, South China: Synthesis and perspective

(2016) Li-Qin Li et al.   Palaeoworld

Long-term cycles of Triassic climate change: a new δ18O record from conodont apatite

(2015) Julie A. Trotter et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Provenance of detrital zircons in the Late Triassic Sichuan foreland basin: constraints on the evolution of the Qinling Orogen and Longmen Shan thrust-fold belt in central China

(2015) Yong Zhang et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Geological context of the dinosauriform-bearing outcrops from the Triassic of Southern Brazil

(2015) Átila A.S. Da-Rosa   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Extreme ecosystem instability suppressed tropical dinosaur dominance for 30 million years

(2015) Jessica H. Whiteside et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A 30 Myr record of Late Triassic atmosphericpCO2variation reflects a fundamental control of the carbon cycle by changes in continental weathering

(2014) Morgan F. Schaller et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Detrital zircon U–Pb ages of Late Triassic–Late Jurassic deposits in the western and northern Sichuan Basin margin: constraints on the foreland basin provenance and tectonic implications

(2014) Liang Luo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

First chirothere and possible grallatorid footprint assemblage from the Upper Triassic Baoding Formation of Sichuan Province, southwestern China

(2014) Lida Xing et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A Review of the Tetrapod Track Record in China, with Special Reference to Type Ichnospecies: Implications for Ichnotaxonomy and Paleobiology

(2013) Martin G. LOCKLEY et al.   ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION

ChirotheriumTrackways from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou, China

(2013) Lida Xing et al.   ICHNOS-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PLANT AND ANIMAL TRACES

Preface

(2013) Paul C. Sereno   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

The oldest dinosaur? A Middle Triassic dinosauriform from Tanzania

(2012) S. J. Nesbitt et al.   Biology Letters

Tectonic evolution of a composite collision orogen: An overview on the Qinling–Tongbai–Hong'an–Dabie–Sulu orogenic belt in central China

(2012) Yuan-Bao Wu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Late Triassic Tetrapod-Dominated Ichnoassemblages from the Argana Basin (Western High Atlas, Morocco)

(2012) Abdelouahed Lagnaoui et al.   ICHNOS-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PLANT AND ANIMAL TRACES

A Late Triassic Dinosaur-Dominated Ichnofauna from the Tomanová Formation of the Tatra Mountains, Central Europe

(2011) Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Reappraisement and refinement of zircon U-Pb isotope and trace element analyses by LA-ICP-MS

(2010) YongSheng Liu et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Improved laser ablation U-Pb zircon geochronology through robust downhole fractionation correction

(2010) Chad Paton et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira

(2010) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   NATURE

Footprints pull origin and diversification of dinosaur stem lineage deep into Early Triassic

(2010) S. L. Brusatte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The origin and early evolution of dinosaurs

(2009) Max C. Langer et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS