Early Triassic Fossils from Australia Uncover Diverse Marine Amphibian Community | Sci.News

Early Triassic Fossils from Australia Uncover Diverse Marine Amphibian Community | Sci.News

Several 250-million-year-old specimens from museum collections in Australia and the United States have revealed a surprising diversity of trematosaurid temnospondyls in Western Australia, showing that early marine amphibians spread across continents soon after the end-Permian mass extinction.