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The Triassic Period witnessed major macroevolutionary patterns among non-marine faunas including the originand diversification of many key tetrapod linages that later dominated terrestrial ecosystems during the rest of theMesozoic and Cenozoic. In this context, detailed knowledge of individual Triassic tetrapod fossil assemblages in aprecise geochronologic framework is of upmost importance for elucidating similarities and differences in communitiesacross biogeographic boundaries. Although, there is a bias towards data from the modern NorthernHemisphere continents, the importance and relevance of the Southern Hemisphere tetrapod fossil record hasbeen widely recognized, particularly the record of non-mammalian therapsids (cynodonts and dicynodonts),stem turtles, non-archosaurian archosauromorphs, early crocodylomorphs, and early dinosaurs and dinosaurprecursors. This volume focused in the southern South American record highlights how this outstanding fossilrecord, together with its temporal and paleoenvironmental context, impacts on our perception of Triassic nonmarineecosystems across Gondwana and the rest of Pangea.

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