The Late Triassic World Earth in a Time of Transition

About this book

This volume presents the latest science on all significant geological and palaeontological 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, palaeobotany, 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 Late Triassic World is loosely organized to present the physical aspects of Earth during the Late Triassic at the outset, followed by the palaeontological 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.

Contents

Chapter 1. The Late Triassic Timescale
Chapter 2. Late Triassic Global Plate Tectonics
Chapter 3. Climates of the Late Triassic: Perspectives, Proxies and Problems
Chapter 4. The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP): a Review
Chapter 5. Distal Processes and Effects of Multiple Late Triassic Terrestrial Bolide Impacts: Insights from the Norian Manicouagan Event, Northeastern Quebec, Canada
Chapter 6. New Upper Triassic conodont biozonation of the Tethyan Realm
Chapter 7. Late Triassic Ammonoids: Distribution, Biostratigraphy and Biotic Events
Chapter 8. Late Triassic Marine Reptiles
Chapter 9. The Zorzino Limestone Actinopterygian Fauna from the Late Triassic (Norian) of the Southern Alps
Chapter 10. Late Triassic terrestrial tetrapods: Biostratigraphy, biochronology and biotic events
Chapter 11. The Late Triassic record of cynodonts: time of innovations in the mammalian lineage
Chapter 12. Late Triassic Nonmarine Vertebrate and Invertebrate Trace Fossils and the Pattern of the Phanerozoic Record of Vertebrate Trace Fossils
Chapter 13. Flora of The Late Triassic
Chapter 14. Expansion of Arthropod Herbivory in Late Triassic South Africa: The Molteno Biota, Aasvoelberg 411 Site and Developmental Biology of a Gall
Chapter 15. The Missing Mass Extinction at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary

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Biography

Dr Lawrence Tanner serves as Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Environmental Change at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. Dr Tanner has written two textbooks and edited five volumes prior to this one.