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Palaeos Time > Mesozoic > Triassic > Induan |
 | | During the Induan age, the survivors of the greatest disaster the Phanerozoic biosphere had faced emerged to inherit the Earth. |
 | | As a consequence, during the earliest Triassic (Induan), the newly arisen temnospondyl amphibian families, though still exceeded by reptiles in diversity, become fairly abundant in some cases, especially the Lydekkerinidiae in Gondwanaland and the early Capitosauridae (along with their benthosuchid offshoots) in Western Laurasia. |
 | | It is mostly contemporous with the Induan epoch (equivalence at least in part with the Induan is indicated by the occurrence of characteristic Lootsbergian temnospondyls in ammonite-bearing Induan strata of the Wordy Creek Formation in eastern Greenland (Trümpy, 1961), although the FAD of Lystrosaurus is actually late Permian (perhaps middle Changhsingian). |
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