Carboniferous–Permian climate change constrained early land vertebrate radiations

The Carboniferous–Permian transition (CPT) was Earth’s last pre-Quaternary icehouse–greenhouse transition, recording major shifts in late Palaeozoic climate regimes and increased continental seasonality over approximately 40 Myr. Its parallels to Quaternary climate change have inspired recent investigations into the impacts of purported rainforest collapse on palaeotropical vertebrate diversity, but little is known about how the protracted...