Sereno, P. C. The origin and evolution of dinosaurs. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 25, 435–489 (1997).
Langer, M. C., Ezcurra, M. D., Bittencourt, J. S. & Novas, F. E. The origin and early evolution of dinosaurs. Biol. Rev. 85, 55–110 (2010).
Marsicano, C. A., Irmis, R. B., Mancuso, A. C., Mundil, R. & Chemale, F. The precise temporal calibration of dinosaur origins. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 113, 509–513 (2016).
Nesbitt, S. J. et al. Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira. Nature 464, 95–98 (2010).
Tanner, L. H. in The Late Triassic World. Earth in a Time of Transition, Topics in Geobiology, Vol. 46 (ed. Tanner L. H.) 59–90 (Springer, 2018).
Simms, M. J. & Ruffell, A. H. Synchroneity of climatic change and extinctions in the Late Triassic. Geology 17, 265–268 (1989).
Pieńkowski, G., Niedźwiedzki, G. & Brański, P. in Volcanism, Impacts and Mass Extinctions: Causes and Effects (eds Keller, G. & Kerr, A. C.) 263–286 (The Geological Society of America, 2014).
Rogers, R. R. et al. The Ischigualasto tetrapod assemblage (Late Triassic, Argentina) and 40Ar/39Ar dating of dinosaur origins. Science 260, 794–797 (1993).
Nesbitt, S. J. et al. The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan. Nature 544, 484–487 (2017).
Brusatte, S. L. et al. The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs. Earch-Sci. Rev. 101, 68–100 (2010).
Bakker, R. T. Anatomical and ecological evidence of endothermy in dinosaurs. Nature 238, 81–85 (1972).
Charig, A. J. in Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 52: The Structure, Development, and Evolution of Reptiles (ed. Ferguson, M. W. J.) 597–628 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1984).
Benton, M. J. Dinosaur success in the Triassic: a noncompetitive ecological model. Q. Rev. Biol. 58, 29–55 (1983).
Benton, M. J. Progress and competition in macroevolution. Biol. Rev. 62, 305–338 (1987).
Benton, M. J., Forth, J. & Langer, M. C. Models for the rise of the dinosaurs. Curr. Biol. 24, 87–95 (2014).
Olsen, P. E. et al. Ascent of dinosaurs linked to an iridium anomaly at the Triassic–Jurassic boundary. Science 296, 1305–1307 (2002).
Brusatte, S. L., Benton, M. J., Ruta, M. & Lloyd, G. T. Superiority, competition, and opportunism in the evolutionary radiation of dinosaurs. Science 321, 1485–1488 (2008).
Irmis, R. B. Evaluating hypotheses for the early diversification of dinosaurs. Earth Environ. Sci. Trans. R. Soc. Edinb. 101, 397–426 (2010).
Bernardi, M., Gianolla, P., Petti, F. M., Mietto, P. & Benton, M. J. Dinosaur diversification linked with the Carnian Pluvial Episode. Nat. Commun. 9, 1499 (2018).
Langer, M. C. & Godoy, P. L. So volcanoes created the dinosaurs? A quantitative characterization of the early evolution of terrestrial Pan-Aves. Front. Earth Sci. 10, 899562 (2022).
Dunne, E. M. et al. Climatic controls on the ecological ascendancy of dinosaurs. Curr. Biol. 33, 206–214 (2022).
Griffin, C. T. et al. Africa’s oldest dinosaurs reveal early suppression of dinosaur distribution. Nature 609, 313–319 (2022).
Chiarenza, A. A. et al. Early Jurassic origin of avian endothermy and thermophysiological diversity in dinosaurs. Curr. Biol. 34, 2517–2527 (2024).
Kent, D. V. & Clemmensen, L. B. Northward dispersal of dinosaurs from Gondwana to Greenland at the mid-Norian (215–212 Ma, Late Triassic) dip in atmospheric pCO2. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 118, e2020778118 (2021).
Pacyna, G. Critical review of research on the Lower Jurassic flora of Poland. Acta Palaeobot. 53, 141–163 (2013).
Pacyna, G. Plant remains from the Polish Triassic. Present knowledge and future prospects. Acta Palaeobot. 54, 3–33 (2014).
Fijałkowska-Mader, A. A record of climatic changes in the Triassic palynological spectra from Poland. Geol. Q. 59, 615–653 (2015).
Barbacka, M. et al. Changes in terrestrial floras at the Triassic–Jurassic boundary in Europe. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 480, 80–93 (2017).
Dzik, J. & Sulej, T. A review of the early Late Triassic Krasiejów biota from Silesia, Poland. Palaeontol. Pol. 64, 3–27 (2007).
Sulej, T., Bronowicz, R., Tałanda, M. & Niedźwiedzki, G. A new dicynodont–archosaur assemblage from the Late Triassic (Carnian) of Poland. Earth Environ. Sci. Trans. R. Soc. Edinb. 101, 261–269 (2010).
Sulej, T., Niedźwiedzki, G., Tałanda, M., Dróżdż, D. & Hara, E. A new early Late Triassic non-mammaliaform eucynodont from Poland. Hist. Biol. 32, 80–92 (2020).
Dzik, J., Sulej, T. & Niedźwiedzki, G. A dicynodont–theropod association in the latest Triassic of Poland. Acta Palaeontol. Pol. 53, 733–738 (2008).
Sander, P. M. The Norian Plateosaurus bonebeds of central Europe and their taphonomy. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 93, 255–299 (1992).
Qvarnström, M. et al. Beetle-bearing coprolites possibly reveal the diet of a Late Triassic dinosauriform. R. Soc. Open Sci. 6, 181042 (2019).
Qvarnström, M. et al. Exceptionally preserved beetles in a Triassic coprolite of putative dinosauriform origin. Curr. Biol. 31, 3374–3381 (2021).
Qvarnström, M., Ahlberg, P. E. & Niedźwiedzki, G. Tyrannosaurid-like osteophagy by a Triassic archosaur. Sci. Rep. 9, 925 (2019).
Dróżdż, D. Osteology of a forelimb of an aetosaur Stagonolepis olenkae (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia: Aetosauria) from the Krasiejów locality in Poland and its probable adaptations for a scratch-digging behavior. PeerJ 6, e5595 (2018).
Qvarnström, M. et al. Synchrotron phase-contrast microtomography of coprolites generates novel palaeobiological data. Sci. Rep. 7, 2723 (2017).
Bajdek, P., Owocki, K. & Niedźwiedzki, G. Putative dicynodont coprolites from the Upper Triassic of Poland. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 411, 1–17 (2014).
Sulej, T. & Niedźwiedzki, G. An elephant-sized Late Triassic synapsid with erect limbs. Science 363, 78–80 (2019).
Gierliński, G., Niedźwiedzki, G. & Pieńkowski, G. Gigantic footprint of a theropod dinosaur in the Early Jurassic of Poland. Acta Palaeontol. Pol. 46, 441–446 (2001).
Barbacka, M. et al. Early Jurassic coprolites: insights into palaeobotany and the feeding behaviour of dinosaurs. Pap. Palaeontol. 8, e1425 (2022).
Marynowski, L. & Simoneit, B. R. Widespread Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic wildfire records from Poland: evidence from charcoal and pyrolytic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Palaios 24, 785–798 (2009).
Belcher, C. M. et al. Increased fire activity at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in Greenland due to climate-driven floral change. Nat. Geosci. 3, 426–429 (2010).
Petersen, H. I. & Lindström, S. Synchronous wildfire activity rise and mire deforestation at the Triassic–Jurassic boundary. PLoS ONE 7, e47236 (2012).
Buck, W. B. & Bratich, P. M. Activated charcoal: preventing unnecessary death by poisoning. Vet. Med. 81, 73–77 (1986).
Poage, G. W., Scott, C. B., Bisson, M. G. & Hartmann, F. S. Activated charcoal attenuates bitterweed toxicosis in sheep. J. Range Manag. 53, 73–78 (2000).
Grice, K. et al. New insights into the origin of perylene in geological samples. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 6531–6543 (2009).
Itoha, N., Sakagami, N., Torimura, M. & Watanabe, M. Perylene in Lake Biwa sediments originating from Cenococcum geophilum in its catchment area. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 95, 241–251 (2012).
Marynowski, L. et al. Perylene as an indicator of conifer fossil wood degradation by wood-degrading fungi. Org. Geochem. 59, 143–151 (2013).
Marzoli, A. et al. Extensive 200-million-year-old continental flood basalts of the Central Atlantic magmatic province. Science 284, 616–618 (1999).
Hesselbo, S. P., Robinson, S. A., Surlyk, F. & Piasecki, S. Terrestrial and marine extinction at the Triassic–Jurassic boundary synchronized with major carbon-cycle perturbation: a link to initiation of massive volcanism? Geology 30, 251–254 (2002).
Schoene, B., Guex, J., Bartolini, A., Schaltegger, U. & Blackburn, T. J. Correlating the end-Triassic mass extinction and flood basalt volcanism at the 100 ka level. Geology 38, 387–390 (2010).
Clemmensen, L. B., Kent, D. V. & Jenkins, F. A. Jr A Late Triassic lake system in East Greenland: facies, depositional cycles and palaeoclimate. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 140, 135–159 (1998).
Ahlberg, A., Arndorff, A. & Guy-Ohlson, D. Onshore climate change during the Late Triassic marine inundation of the central European basin. Terra Nova 14, 241–248 (2002).
Kustatscher, E. et al. in The Late Triassic World. Earth in a Time of Transition, Topics in Geobiology, Vol. 46 (ed. Tanner, L. H.) 545–622 (Springer, 2018).
Lucas, S. G. & Tanner, L. H. End-Triassic nonmarine biotic events. J. Palaeogeogr. 4, 331–348 (2015).
Wang, S. C. & Dodson, P. Estimating the diversity of dinosaurs. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103, 13601–13605 (2006).
Olsen, P. et al. Arctic ice and the ecological rise of the dinosaurs. Sci. Adv. 8, eabo6342 (2022).
Qvarnström et al. Supplementary figures to “Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy”. Figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.26103031 (2024).
Paganin, D., Mayo, S. C., Gureyev, T. E., Miller, P. R. & Wilkins, S. W. Simultaneous phase and amplitude extraction from a single defocused image of a homogeneous object. J. Microsc. 206, 33–40 (2002).
Sanchez, S., Ahlberg, P. E., Trinajstic, K. M., Mirone, A. & Tafforeau, P. Three-dimensional synchrotron virtual paleohistology: a new insight into the world of fossil bone microstructures. Microsc. Microanal. 18, 1095–1105 (2012).
Lyckegaard, A., Johnson, G. & Tafforeau, P. Correction of ring artifacts in X-ray tomographic images. Int. J. Tomogr. Simul. 18, 1–9 (2011).
Bastow, T. P., van Aarssen, B. G. K. & Lang, D. Rapid small-scale separation of saturate, aromatic and polar components in petroleum. Org. Geochem. 38, 1235–1250 (2007).
