The Late Triassic World

Presents a comprehensive review of the latest science in the geological and paleontological aspects of Earth during the Late Triassic period
Covers the records of land-based life and marine life during the Late Triassic, as well as extinctions

Appropriate for both reference and classroom use

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
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 andthe 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, Aasvoëlberg 411 Site and Developmental Biology of a Gall.- Chapter 15. The Missing Mass Extinction at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary.