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SUBMITTER: Cisneros JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4659833 | biostudies-other | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Cisneros Juan C JC Marsicano Claudia C Angielczyk Kenneth D KD Smith Roger M H RM Richter Martha M Fröbisch Jörg J Kammerer Christian F CF Sadleir Rudyard W RW
Nature communications 20151105
Terrestrial vertebrates are first known to colonize high-latitude regions during the middle Permian (Guadalupian) about 270 million years ago, following the Pennsylvanian Gondwanan continental glaciation. However, despite over 150 years of study in these areas, the biogeographic origins of these rich communities of land-dwelling vertebrates remain obscure. Here we report on a new early Permian continental tetrapod fauna from South America in tropical Western Gondwana that sheds new light on patt ...[more]