Northward dispersal of dinosaurs from Gondwana to Greenland at the mid-Norian (215–212 Ma, Late Triassic) dip in atmospheric pCO(2)

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Kent, Dennis V., Clemmensen, Lars B.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: National Academy of Sciences 2021
• Subjects: Physical Sciences; Argentina; Fleming Fjord; Greenland; East Greenland
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7923678/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33593914; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020778118

The earliest dinosaurs (theropods and sauropodomorphs) are found in fossiliferous early Late Triassic strata dated to about 230 million years ago (Ma), mainly in northwestern Argentina and southern Brazil in the Southern Hemisphere temperate belt of what was Gondwana in Pangea. Sauropodomorphs, whic...