Fire in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic

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Belcher, C. M., 2009, Reigniting the Cretaceous-Palaeogene firestorm debate: Geology, v. 37, n. 12, p. 1147-1148.

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Catharina, A. S., Kneller, B. C., Marques, J. C., McArthur, A. D., Cevallos-Ferriz, S. R. S., Theurer, T., Kane, I. A., and Muirhead, D., 2022, Timing and causes of foredt fire at the K-Pg boundary: Nature, publidhed online, 11pp.

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Edwards, D., and Axe, L., 2004, Anatomical evidence in the detection of the earliest wildfires: Palaios, v. 19, p. 113-128.

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Glasspool, I., 1999, A major fire event and its effects on the peat forming vegetation of the Permian, Lower Whybrow Seam, New South Wales: In: Palaeontological Association 43nd Annual Meeting, Univeristy of Manchester, p. 16.

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Hamad, A. M. B. A., Jasper, A,. and Uhl, D., 2012, The record of Triassic charcoal and other evidence for palaeo-wildfires: signal for atmospheric oxygen levels, taphonomic biases or lack of fuel? International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 96097, p. 60-71.

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Jones, T. P., and Ash, S. R., 2006, Late Triassic charcoal and charcoal-like plant fossils from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: In: A century of research at Petrified Forest National Park 1906-2006, Geology and Paleontology, edited by Parker, W. G., Ash, S. R., and Irmis, R. B., Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, no. 62, p. 106-115.

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Kring, D. A., and Durda, D. D., 2003, The day the World Burned. The dinosaur-killing impact set off a wave of wildfires that consumed Earth’s forests: Scientific American, v. 289, n. 6, p. 98-105.

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Main, D. J., Noto, C. R., Scotese, C., and Weishampel, D. W., 2012, Wildfire paleoecology from the Cretaceous coast of southewest Appalcachia at the Arlington Archosaur site, Texas: In: 72nd Annual Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, supplement to the online journal of paleontology, October, 2012, p. 132.

Manfroi, J., Trevisan, C., Dutra, T. L., Jasper, A., de Araujo Carvalho, M., Aquino, F. E., and Leppe, M., 2023, "Antarctic on fire": Paleo-wildfire events associated with volcanic deposits in the Antarctic Peninsula during the Late Cretaceous: Frontiers in Earth Science, 11pp.

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Perkins, S., 2000, Did ancient wildfire end in barbecue?: Science News, v. 158, p. 317.

Perkins, S., 2004, Rare English bits are oldest known charcoal: Science News, v. 165, p. 334.

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Rowe, N. P., and Jones, T. P., 2000, Devonian charchoal: In: Special Issue, Fire and the Palaeoenvironment, edited by Scott, A. C., Moore, J., and Brayshay, B., Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 164, p. 331-338.

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Sankey, J. T., 2005, Late Cretaceous dinosaurs, eggs, babies, fires, and drought in Big Bend National Park, Texas: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 25, supplement to n. 3, abstracts of papers, sixty-fifth annual meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Mesa Southwest Museum and Phoenix Marriott Mesa, Mesa, Arizona, October 19-22, 2005, p. 109a.

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