A drying climate caused a mass extinction among plants, but paved the way for the ancestors of modern reptiles, mammals, and birds.
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Research Geologist and Curator of Paleobotany, Smithsonian Institution
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Assistant Professor in Palaeontology, Trinity College Dublin
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Swiss National Science Foundation Ambzione Fellow in Geo- and Cosmochemistry, ETH Zurich
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Doctoral Researcher, University of Sussex
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Lecturer, University of Essex
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Doctoral Candidate of Lithosphere and Biosphere Science, Lund University
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Honorary Research Fellow in Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Senior Lecturer in Biology, University of Sussex
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Research Fellow in Palaeobiology, University of Leeds
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PhD Researcher, University of Leicester
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeobiology, University College Cork
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Professor, Northwest University, Xi'an