U-Pb age constraints on dinosaur rise from south Brazil

Triassic dinosaurs from South Brazil are considered as some of the oldest known worldwide, but their precise correlation to other early dinosaur occurrences have proven difficult. The problem of such long-distance faunal correlations has been exacerbated by reliance on an equivocal tetrapod biostratigraphy and the lack of palynomorphs and other age-bearing microfossils. Here, we present new high-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology (CA-ID-TIMS...