Early Triassic Climate

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The interior of Pangea was hot and dry during the Triassic.  Warm Temperate climates extended to the Poles.  This may have been one of the hottest times in Earth history.  Rapid Global Warming at the very end of the Permian may have created a super - "Hot House" world that caused the great Permo-Triassic extinction.   99% of all life on Earth perished during the Permo-Triassic extinction.  MAP LEGEND

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