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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Unusual bone bed reveals a vertebrate community with pterosaurs and turtles in equatorial Pangaea before the end-Triassic extinction.

Ben T Kligman, Robin L Whatley, Jahandar Ramezani, Adam D Marsh, Tyler R Lyson, Adam J Fitch, William G Parker, Anna K Behrensmeyer

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors.

Ben T KligmanDepartment of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013.ORCID 0000-0003-4400-8963
Robin L WhatleySchool of Design, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL 60605.ORCID 0000-0001-8475-5563
Jahandar RamezaniIsotope Laboratory, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-5856-1471
Adam D MarshDepartment of Science and Resource Management, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ 86028.ORCID 0000-0002-3223-8940
Tyler R LysonDepartment of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO 80205.ORCID 0000-0003-4391-9044
Adam J FitchDepartment of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013.ORCID 0000-0003-0121-2972
William G ParkerDepartment of Science and Resource Management, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ 86028.ORCID 0000-0002-6005-7098
Anna K BehrensmeyerDepartment of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013.ORCID 0000-0001-6857-368X

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NSF (NSF) EAR 1024196
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Temporally constrained microvertebrate bone beds are powerful tools for understanding continent-scale biotic change. Such sites are rare globally in nonmarine settings during the 12 million years (Ma) preceding the end-Triassic extinction (ETE; ~201.5 Ma), obscuring patterns of faunal change across this interval. A vertebrate assemblage from Arizona, USA, provides unique insights into community composition and ecology prior to the ETE. PFV 393 is a macro- and microvertebrate bone bed preserved in a volcaniclastic fluvial channel-fill with a high-precision U-Pb zircon age of 209.187 ± 0.083 Ma. The fossil assemblage consists of three-dimensionally preserved, delicate, and small skeletal elements of known and new taxa that document a local paleocommunity including hybodontiformes, actinopterygians, actinistians, metoposaurids, salientians, synapsids, lepidosaurs, testudinatans, trilophosaurids,

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Bone and BonesDinosaursExtinction, BiologicalFossilsTurtlesVertebratesAnimalsArizonaBiological Evolutionend Triassic extinctionPangaeaPterosauriaTestudinataTriassic

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PMID40623204
PMCPMC12304912

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