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SUBMITTER: Bernardi M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5784198 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bernardi Massimo M Petti Fabio Massimo FM Benton Michael J MJ
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20180101 1870
The Permian-Triassic mass extinction (PTME) had an enormous impact on life in three ways: by substantially reducing diversity, by reshuffling the composition of ecosystems and by expelling life from the tropics following episodes of intense global warming. But was there really an 'equatorial tetrapod gap', and how long did it last? Here, we consider both skeletal and footprint data, and find a more complex pattern: (i) tetrapods were distributed both at high and low latitudes during this time; ( ...[more]