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Both an iridium anomaly and a fern spike appear in rocks at the end of the Triassic, too.
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The dinosaur evolved in the Mid-Triassic, between 245 and 235 million years ago.
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The biggest marine reptile on record is a 21m-long ichthyosaur, Shonisaurus sikanniensis, from Triassic Period rocks in British Columbia, Canada.
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Five of the ichnotaxa disappear before the end of the Triassic, and four march confidently across the boundary into the Jurassic.
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In addition, this skew toward giant sizes generally happened toward the end of major time periods, such as the Late Triassic, Late Jurassic and Late Cretaceous.
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Another benefit of this find is that it provides further evidence that dinosaurs evolved in the southern portion of Pangaea, the supercontinent that existed in the Triassic period.
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The Eubrontes prints were made by theropods the dinosaur group that went on to produce such nightmares as Allosaurus and Tyrannosaurus and Eubrontes is already 20% bigger than any theropod track recorded from the Triassic.
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It has old crystalline rocks from several hundreds of millions of years ago up to more recent formations of rocks including one of the largest Alpine Triassic carbonate successions, which has rich fossil remains.
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