Editing Permian–Triassic extinction event (section)

====Temnospondyls====
[[Temnospondyl]] [[amphibian]]s made a quick recovery; the appearance in the fossil record of so many temnospondyl clades suggests they may have been ideally suited as pioneer species that recolonised decimated ecosystems.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=McHugh |first=Julia Beth |date=May 2012 |title=Temnospondyl ontogeny and phylogeny, a window into terrestrial ecosystems during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1030963218 |type=PhD |chapter=ASSESSING TEMNOSPONDYL EVOLUTION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TERRESTRIAL PERMO-TRIASSIC MASS EXTINCTION |publisher=[[University of Iowa]] |access-date=20 September 2023|id={{ProQuest|1030963218}} }}</ref> During the Induan, [[Tupilakosauridae|tupilakosaurids]] in particular thrived as disaster taxa,<ref name="TheLessonOfTemnospondyls" /> including ''[[Tupilakosaurus]]'' itself,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Scholze |first1=Frank |last2=Golubev |first2=Valeriy K. |last3=Niedźwiedzki |first3=Grzegorz |last4=Sennikov |first4=Andrey G. |last5=Schneider |first5=Jörg W. |last6=Silantiev |first6=Vladimir V. |date=1 July 2015 |title=Early Triassic Conchostracans (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from the terrestrial Permian–Triassic boundary sections in the Moscow syncline |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003101821500187X |journal=[[Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology]] |volume=429 |pages=22–40 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.04.002 |bibcode=2015PPP...429...22S |issn=0031-0182 |access-date=24 November 2023|url-access=subscription }}</ref> though they gave way to other temnospondyls as ecosystems recovered.<ref name="TheLessonOfTemnospondyls">{{Cite journal |last1=Ruta |first1=Marcello |last2=Benton |first2=Michael J. |title=Calibrated Diversity, Tree Topology and the Mother of Mass Extinctions: The Lesson of Temnospondyls |date=19 November 2011 |journal=[[Palaeontology (journal)|Palaeontology]] |language=en |volume=51 |issue=6 |pages=1261–1288 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00808.x |s2cid=85411546 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2008Palgy..51.1261R }}</ref> Temnospondyls were reduced in size during the Induan, but their body size rebounded to pre-PTME levels during the Olenekian.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tarailo |first1=David A. |date=5 November 2018 |title=Taxonomic and ecomorphological diversity of temnospondyl amphibians across the Permian–Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin (South Africa) |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmor.20906 |journal=[[Journal of Morphology]] |volume=279 |issue=12 |pages=1840–1848 |doi=10.1002/jmor.20906 |pmid=30397933 |s2cid=53234826 |access-date=31 May 2023|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''[[Mastodonsaurus]]'' and [[trematosauria]]ns were the main aquatic and semiaquatic predators during most of the Triassic, some preying on [[tetrapod]]s and others on fish.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Yates, A. M. |author2=Warren, A. A. |year=2000 |title=The phylogeny of the 'higher' temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of the Stereospondyli|journal=[[Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society]] |volume=128|issue=1|pages=77–121|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00650.x
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