Permian-Triassic Extinction
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Extinction - Permian-Triassic. Short video showing rock layers being laid down during the Permian and Triassic periods, and background information on the mass extinctions that occurred at this time. ...
www.pbs.org
The Permo-Triassic Extinction
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Extinction - Permian-Triassic. Information on the biggest extinction known to man with a paleontological overview, evidence for the extinction, the groups concerned and the possible causes of the devastation. ...
palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk
The Permian-Triassic Extinction
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Extinction - Permian-Triassic. Article by Andrew Alden proposing that new evidence and old, both support a volcanic explanation for this mass extinction when nine tenths of all species disappeared. ...
geology.about.com
The Triassic Period
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - By Geological Interval - Mesozoic - Triassic. An overview of the period from the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology. ...
Jurassic Coast
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Famous Localities - Lyme Regis. Official guide to England's first UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, along ninety five miles of coastline from East Devon to ...
www.jurassiccoast.com
Links for Palaeobotanists
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Paleobotany. An annotated collection of pointers to information on palaeobotany, with an Upper Triassic bias. ...
www.equisetites.de
Megalancosaurus
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Vertebrates - Diapsids. Photographs and information on this small diapsid reptile from the Late Triassic of Northern Italy. ...
dipbsf.uninsubria.it
Paleobiology: The Mesozoic
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - By Geological Interval - Mesozoic. Article about the age of cycads and dinosaurs covering the Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous and the great Cretaceous mass ext ...
www.emc.maricopa.edu
Triadobatrachus massinoti
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Vertebrates - Salientia. Wikipedia provides information on this proto-frog, the earliest known salientian, from the Early Triassic of Madagascar. ...
en.wikipedia.org
Oldest Angiosperms
Science - Biology - Flora and Fauna - Plantae - Magnoliophyta - Magnoliopsida - Balanophoraceae. Article discussing the similarities of the Balanophoraceae to the original Angiosperms in the late Tria ...
www.sunstar-solutions.com
History of Palynology
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Paleobotany - Palynology. Provides a historical perspective to the microscopic study of spores and pollen grains and their comparison with the organically pre ...
www.palynology.org
Dinosaur State Park
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Regional - North America - United States - Connecticut. Dinosaur track site and geodesic dome featuring Triassic and Jurassic dioramas, interactive displays a ...
www.dinosaurstatepark.org
Drepanosauridae
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Vertebrates - Diapsids. Information from Wikipedia on this family of reptiles from the late Triassic, characterized by their distinctive triangular skulls whi ...
en.wikipedia.org
Dinosaur Facts
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Vertebrates - Dinosaurs. Provides a resource for dinosaur information including dinosaur pictures, in depth descriptions for many types of dinosaurs and much ...
www.dinosaurfact.net
Placodont
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Vertebrates - Marine Reptiles. Information from Wikipedia on the Placodonts, a group of marine reptiles with heavy armour plating that lived during the Triass ...
en.wikipedia.org
Triadobatrachus massinoti
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Vertebrates - Salientia. Information on this amphibian fossil found in Madagascar which dates from the Triassic era about 200 million years ago and is a link ...
www.tolweb.org
Big Crater Seen beneath Ice Sheet
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Extinction - Permian-Triassic. The BBC provides news that what appears to be a 480km-wide crater has been detected under the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and may have been responsible for the extinction at the boundary of the Permian and Triassic. ...
news.bbc.co.uk
The Great Permian Extinction Debate
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Extinction - Permian-Triassic. Paper by James A. Marusek, providing a hypothesis of the mechanisms behind the greatest mass extinction of life on Earth, the Permian... at the end of the Botomian, Devonian, Permian, Triassic and Cretaceous Ages. ...
www.breadandbutterscience.com
The Permian Mass Extinction
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Extinction - Permian-Triassic. Discusses the geologic setting, possible causes, and taxa affected by the extinction event at the end of the Paleozoic. ...
hannover.park.org
Mystriosuchus
Science - Earth Sciences - Paleontology - Vertebrates - Diapsids. Illustration of this crocodile-like diapsid from the Upper Triassic, its description and some photographs. ...
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