The Triassic Period As We Understand It | Documentary for Sleep

Listen on Spotify: bit.ly/DinosaurHour The Triassic Period | Documentary for Sleep A slow, calm walk through the Triassic Period, the strange, experimental fifty-million-year doorway between the Permian Great Dying and the rise of the dinosaurs. We follow Lystrosaurus survivors across a recovering Karoo, watch a Tanystropheus fish with his impossible neck in a warm Tethys lagoon, meet the first true dinosaurs in the dust of Argentine Ischigualasto, stand beside a Plateosaurus matriarch in late-Triassic Germany, and pause beside a Morganucodon mother nursing her three blind young in a cycad burrow. Then we ask what world might be turning tonight if the end-Triassic extinction had not happened. Subscribe for a new long-form dinosaur sleep documentary each week. Sources 1. Sues, H.-D. & Fraser, N. C. (2010). Triassic Life on Land: The Great Transition. Columbia University Press. - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History / Virginia Museum. Authoritative comprehensive Triassic reference. 2. Brusatte, S. L. et al. (2010). The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs. Earth-Science Reviews, 101(1-2), 68-100. - University of Edinburgh / American Museum of Natural History. Dinosaur origins synthesis. 3. Sereno, P. C. (1999). The evolution of dinosaurs. Science, 284(5423), 2137-2147. - University of Chicago. Foundational dinosaur evolution review. 4. Nesbitt, S. J. (2011). The early evolution of archosaurs: relationships and the origin of major clades. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 352, 1-292. - Virginia Tech. 5. Martinez, R. N. et al. (2011). A basal dinosaur from the dawn of the dinosaur era in southwestern Pangaea. Science, 331(6014), 206-210. - National Geographic / CONICET Argentina. Eodromaeus discovery. 6. Sereno, P. C. & Novas, F. E. (1992). The complete skull and skeleton of an early dinosaur. Science, 258(5085), 1137-1140. - University of Chicago / Buenos Aires. Herrerasaurus. 7. Dal Corso, J. et al. (2020). Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic). Science Advances, 6(38), eaba0099. - University of Leeds. Carnian Pluvial Episode synthesis. 8. Benton, M. J. (1983). Dinosaur success in the Triassic: a noncompetitive ecological model. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 58(1), 29-55. - University of Bristol. Classic dinosaur-rauisuchian competition paper. 9. Pacheco, C. P. et al. (2019). Gnathovorax cabreirai: a new early dinosaur and the origin and initial radiation of predatory dinosaurs. PeerJ, 7, e7963. - Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil. 10. Schoch, R. R. (2011). The evolution of major temnospondyl clades: an inclusive phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 9(2), 187-217. - Stuttgart State Museum. Triassic amphibian reference. 11. Marzoli, A. et al. (1999). Extensive 200-million-year-old continental flood basalts of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Science, 284(5414), 616-618. - University of Padua. CAMP discovery paper. 12. Blackburn, T. J. et al. (2013). Zircon U-Pb geochronology links the end-Triassic extinction with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Science, 340(6135), 941-945. - MIT. End-Triassic extinction timing. Spotify Episode Description (SEO-optimised) A slow, calm sleep documentary about the Triassic Period - the strange, experimental fifty-million-year doorway between the Permian Great Dying and the rise of the dinosaurs. Drift across the hot dry interior of Pangaea with Lystrosaurus survivors, watch a Tanystropheus fish with his impossible neck in a warm Tethys lagoon, meet the first true dinosaurs running through the Argentine fern thickets of Ischigualasto, stand with a Plateosaurus matriarch leading her herd through late-Triassic Germany, follow the first pterosaurs as they catch thermals over Italian sea cliffs, and pause beside a small Morganucodon mother nursing her three blind young in a cycad burrow. Then ask what world might be turning tonight if the end-Triassic extinction had not happened. Long-form dinosaur sleep podcast designed for unhurried listening, written for deep rest. Topics: Triassic Period, Pangaea, Tethys Sea, Permian-Triassic boundary, Great Dying, Lystrosaurus, Postosuchus, rauisuchians, aetosaurs, phytosaurs, Tanystropheus, ichthyosaurs, nothosaurs, placodonts, Eoraptor, Herrerasaurus, Plateosaurus, Coelophysis, Riojasaurus, Ischigualasto, Carnian Pluvial Episode, first pterosaurs, Eudimorphodon, first true mammals, Morganucodon, Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, end-Triassic extinction, alternate evolution. Approximately 2 hours of gentle narration. Sources include peer-reviewed work from Edinburgh, Bristol, Chicago, the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian, Virginia Tech, Leeds, Padua, MIT, and the international Triassic palaeontology community (full list in show notes). Part of Dinosaur Hour - a long-form dinosaur sleep documentary series. New episode every other day. Follow the show to keep these calm journeys coming.