• DOI:10.1038/nature03393
Corpus ID: 4416647

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

@article{Sidor2005PermianTF,
  title={Permian tetrapods from the Sahara show climate-controlled endemism in Pangaea},
  author={C. A. Sidor and F. O'keefe and R. Damiani and J. S. Steyer and R. Smith and H. C. Larsson and P. Sereno and O. Id{\'e} and A. Maga},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2005},
  volume={434},
  pages={886-889}
}

C. A. Sidor, F. O'keefe, +6 authors A. Maga

Published 2005

Geography, Medicine

Nature

New fossils from the Upper Permian Moradi Formation of northern Niger provide an insight into the faunas that inhabited low-latitude, xeric environments near the end of the Palaeozoic era (∼ 251 million years ago). We describe here two new temnospondyl amphibians, the cochleosaurid Nigerpeton ricqlesi gen. et sp. nov. and the stem edopoid Saharastega moradiensis gen. et sp. nov., as relicts of Carboniferous lineages that diverged 40–90 million years earlier. Coupled with a scarcity of… CONTINUE READING

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