Archosauriform footprints in the Lower Triassic of Western Alps and their role in understanding the effects of the Permian-Triassic hyperthermal
Petti, Fabio Massimo (Museo delle Scienze di Trento)
Furrer, Heinz (Universität Zürich. Paläontologisches Institut und Museum)
Collo, Enrico (Natura Occitana)
Martinetto, Edoardo (Università degli Studi di Torino. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra)
Bernardi, Massimo (Museo delle Scienze di Trento)
Delfino, Massimo (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Romano, Marco (Sapienza Università di Roma. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra)
Piazza, Michele (Università di Genova. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e della Vita)

Data:	2020
Resum:	The most accepted killing model for the Permian-Triassic mass extinction (PTME) postulates that massive volcanic eruption (i. e. , the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province) led to geologically rapid global warming, acid rain and ocean anoxia. On land, habitable zones were drastically reduced, due to the combined effects of heating, drought and acid rains. This hyperthermal had severe effects also on the paleobiogeography of several groups of organisms. Among those, the tetrapods, whose geographical distribution across the end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) was the subject of controversy in a number of recent papers. We here describe and interpret a new Early Triassic (?Olenekian) archosauriform track assemblage from the Gardetta Plateau (Briançonnais, Western Alps, Italy) which, at the Permian-Triassic boundary, was placed at about 11° North. The tracks, both arranged in trackways and documented by single, well-preserved imprints, are assigned to Isochirotherium gardettensis ichnosp. nov. , and are here interpreted as produced by a non-archosaurian archosauriform (erytrosuchid?) trackmaker. This new discovery provides further evidence for the presence of archosauriformes at low latitudes during the Early Triassic epoch, supporting a model in which the PTME did not completely vacate low-latitude lands from tetrapods that therefore would have been able to cope with the extreme hot temperatures of Pangaea mainland.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Climate warming ; Extinction ; Lower triassic ; Italy ; Isochirotherium gardettensis n. ichnosp
Publicat a:	PeerJ, Vol. 8 (December 2020) , e10522, ISSN 2167-8359

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10522
PMID: 33384899

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