#temnospondyls — Public Fediverse posts
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@TheDinosaurDave
not knowing anything about paleonotology in Tasmania, today I just read the wikipedia page for the Knocklofty Formation , nearly empty aside from a list of temnospondyl (stem-?)amphibians and fishes, and I learned @alcootatooter described one of the temnospondyls, Rotaurisaurus. And it's an Induan formation, that seems quite unusual, to have a fossiliferous formation from the Induan? -
@TheDinosaurDave
not knowing anything about paleonotology in Tasmania, today I just read the wikipedia page for the Knocklofty Formation , nearly empty aside from a list of temnospondyl (stem-?)amphibians and fishes, and I learned @alcootatooter described one of the temnospondyls, Rotaurisaurus. And it's an Induan formation, that seems quite unusual, to have a fossiliferous formation from the Induan? -
@TheDinosaurDave
not knowing anything about paleonotology in Tasmania, today I just read the wikipedia page for the Knocklofty Formation , nearly empty aside from a list of temnospondyl (stem-?)amphibians and fishes, and I learned @alcootatooter described one of the temnospondyls, Rotaurisaurus. And it's an Induan formation, that seems quite unusual, to have a fossiliferous formation from the Induan? -
@TheDinosaurDave
not knowing anything about paleonotology in Tasmania, today I just read the wikipedia page for the Knocklofty Formation , nearly empty aside from a list of temnospondyl (stem-?)amphibians and fishes, and I learned @alcootatooter described one of the temnospondyls, Rotaurisaurus. And it's an Induan formation, that seems quite unusual, to have a fossiliferous formation from the Induan? -
@TheDinosaurDave
not knowing anything about paleonotology in Tasmania, today I just read the wikipedia page for the Knocklofty Formation , nearly empty aside from a list of temnospondyl (stem-?)amphibians and fishes, and I learned @alcootatooter described one of the temnospondyls, Rotaurisaurus. And it's an Induan formation, that seems quite unusual, to have a fossiliferous formation from the Induan? -
Ancient #amphibians bounced back from Earth's greatest mass #extinction by exploiting #freshwater prey https://phys.org/news/2025-03-ancient-amphibians-earth-greatest-mass.html
The ecology and geography of #temnospondyl recovery after the #Permian–#Triassic #MassExtinction https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241200
"the #temnospondyls success lay in their generalist feeding ecology, enabling them to feed on a wide variety of prey... the freshwater habitats they preferred provided them with a relatively stable variety of food resources"