What really matters in the popular science narrative of godless existence (SciPop). Location, location, location. Were forest fires an extinction event at the end of the Triassic? Or did a few burned trees get fossilized?
Late Triassic Wildfires
First Mammals; Rise of the Dinosaurs
First mammals? A place where mammals were buried doesn't make them the first mammals. The presence of mammal remains in sediment is used to place the sediment in timeline of the evolution narrative.
Decline of Glossopterids
In real estate it's location, location, location. In Paleodoublespeak its location, location, location. Glossopterids didn't inhabit a savanna ecosystem with arid to semiarid climates, so there aren't any.
Rise of the Cycadophytes, Ginkgoales
The Triassic wasn't rise of the cycadophytes and Ginkgoales, it's the preserved remains of cycadophytes and Ginkgoales because their habitat was destroyed and buried in a world-wide flood. That's Paleodoublespeak.
Arid to Semiarid, Savanna Type Climates
The paleoenvironments of the periods of geological history that we're seen so far include a statement about climate as a way to rationalize why so much sediment would be eroded, transported and deposited.
August 14th
The Triassic is another microcosm of inductive reductive circular reasoning that we may wryly refer to as an "eddy in the space-time continuum." It's a tip of the hat to Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.