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  • Title: A Late Triassic dinosauromorph assemblage from New Mexico and the rise of dinosaurs.
    Author: Irmis RB, Nesbitt SJ, Padian K, Smith ND, Turner AH, Woody D, Downs A.
    Journal: Science; 2007 Jul 20; 317(5836):358-61. PubMed ID: 17641198.
    Abstract:
    It has generally been thought that the first dinosaurs quickly replaced more archaic Late Triassic faunas, either by outcompeting them or when the more archaic faunas suddenly became extinct. Fossils from the Hayden Quarry, in the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of New Mexico, and an analysis of other regional Upper Triassic assemblages instead imply that the transition was gradual. Some dinosaur relatives preserved in this Chinle assemblage belong to groups previously known only from the Middle and lowermost Upper Triassic outside North America. Thus, the transition may have extended for 15 to 20 million years and was probably diachronous at different paleolatitudes.
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