Permian tetrapods from the Sahara show climate-controlled endemism in Pangaea

Christian A. Sidor (), F. Robin O'Keefe, Ross Damiani, J. Sébastien Steyer, Roger M. H. Smith, Hans C. E. Larsson, Paul C. Sereno, Oumarou Ide and Abdoulaye Maga
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Christian A. Sidor: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
F. Robin O'Keefe: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
Ross Damiani: University of the Witwatersrand
J. Sébastien Steyer: Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Roger M. H. Smith: South African Museum
Hans C. E. Larsson: McGill University
Paul C. Sereno: University of Chicago
Oumarou Ide: Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines
Abdoulaye Maga: Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines

Nature, 2005, vol. 434, issue 7035, 886-889

Abstract: Evolving tetrapods: steppe change Most of what we know of the fascinating period of vertebrate evolution at the end of the Palaeozoic era, 250 million years ago, is based on fossil faunas from southern Africa and from the region that is now China and Russia. The discovery of two previously unknown species of fossil amphibian from the Upper Permian of Niger in West Africa provides a glimpse of a very different fauna, indicating greater variation between Permian vertebrates than was assumed, and perhaps providing a window on climate differences across Pangaea, the global supercontinent of the time.

Date: 2005
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