Re: Permian extinctions and procolophonids

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> BBC site has a story about the Permian extinction and its
> effect on procolophonids:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1562000/1562191.stm

Includes a nice map... where they wrote Serbia instead of Siberia (Serbia
was smeared over long parts of the shores of the Palaeotethys, I guess) and
point to South Africa in the Dem. Rep. of Congo. :-D

Back to list relevance... this is really a bit strange, considering that
procolophonids died out suddenly at the Tr-J boundary. I think this _will_
be explainable by the different natures of the impactors and impact sites...
:-] Well, certain maybe comparable lizards (Teiidae) survived the K-T, so
things of that sort seem to happen during impact-induced mass extinctions.