Vertebrate Succession in the Ischigualasto Formation

@inproceedings{Martnez2012VertebrateSI,
  title={Vertebrate Succession in the Ischigualasto Formation},
  author={Ricardo N. Mart{\'i}nez and Cecilia Apaldetti and Oscar A. Alcober and Carina E. Colombi and Paul C. Sereno and Eliana Fern{\'a}ndez and Paula Santi Malnis and Gustavo A. Correa and Diego Abel{\'i}n},
  year={2012}
}
ABSTRACT The Upper Triassic (Carnian—Norian) Ischigualasto Formation has yielded a diverse vertebrate fauna that records the initial phase of dinosaur evolution. Radioisotopic dates from ash layers within the formation provide a chrono-stratigraphic framework, and stratigraphic and sedimetological studies have subdivided the formation into four members and three abundance-based biozones. We describe two new basal dinosauromorphs, an unnamed lagerpetid and a new silesaurid, Ignotosaurus… 
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