Short answers, pulled from the story.
Friedrich August von Alberti named the Triassic period in 1834. He published his findings in Stuttgart and Tübingen within a monograph titled Beitrag zu einer Monographie des bunten Sandsteins.
The lower layer was known as Buntsandstein, a colorful sandstone that covered vast areas. Above it lay Muschelkalk, a shell-bearing limestone rich with ancient marine fossils. The uppermost section consisted of Keuper, a colored clay deposit that capped the sequence.
The Early Triassic occurred from 251 to 249 million years ago during the Dienerian Cooling phase. Titantic volumes of greenhouse gases discharged from the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province created these thermal maximum conditions.
The supercontinent Pangaea dominated global geography at the start of the Triassic Period. It stretched from the north to south polar regions while centered on the equator.
Early pterosaurs appeared in Norian spreading worldwide quickly. Over 25 species found including giant quadrupedal hunters and sleek bipedal omnivores existed alongside them.