Foreword

You guys don't understand. How much of a clusterf#$@. This subject is. Good dear God, EVERYONE in the paleontology circles was collectively running about like rats in a ship over this for over a decade and it still hasn't cooled. If you so much as bring up some names in a group, you just lit off the kindle box. Storytime now for context.

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The Late Triassic, over 225 million years into the past. The Great Dying that prematurely ended the reign of the mammal ancestors and nearly destroyed all multicellular life on the planet was dim memory upon the landscape which it ravaged 25 million years earlier. The air was thick despite the lower oxygen levels than the present, still dense with humid moisture spurred by the hotter morning sun.

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