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    Drepanosaurs (members of the clade Drepanosauromorpha) are a group of extinct reptiles that lived between the Carnian and Rhaetian stages of the late Triassic...
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    paleobiology of the Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian: Adamanian-Apachean) drepanosaurs (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha: Drepanosauromorpha)". New Mexico Museum...
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    Hypuronector (category Drepanosaurs)
    Hypuronector is a genus of extinct drepanosaur reptile from the Late Triassic Lockatong Formation of New Jersey. The etymology of the name translates...
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    parareptiles, were an important group of small lizard-like herbivores. The drepanosaurs were a clade of unusual, chameleon-like arboreal reptiles with birdlike...
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    lizard-like Weigeltisauridae, as well as the Triassic chameleon-like drepanosaurs. The position of the highly derived Mesozoic marine reptile groups Thalattosauria...
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    is defined as including the gliding weigeltisaurids and the arboreal drepanosaurs to the exclusion of other major diapsid groups. This relationship is...
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    The forelimbs are in contrast much smaller. Hypuronector. This bizarre drepanosaur displays limb proportions, particularly the elongated forelimbs, that...
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    Avicranium (category Drepanosaurs)
    Avicranium is a genus of extinct drepanosaur reptile known from the Chinle Formation of the late Triassic. The type species of Avicranium is Avicranium...
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    Vallesaurus (category Drepanosaurs)
    First found in Northern Italy in 1975, it is one of the most primitive drepanosaurs. V. cenenis is the type species, which was first mentioned in 1991 but...
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  • drepanosauromorph (Diapsida) from East–Central New Mexico and diversity of drepanosaur morphology and ecology at the Upper Triassic Homestead Site at Garita...
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    their inclusion within either group. The chameleon- or tamandua-like drepanosaurs are also semi-regularly placed within Archosauromorpha, although some...
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    aetosaurs) and carnivorous ones (rauisuchids) having died out. Phytosaurs, drepanosaurs, trilophosaurids, tanystropheids, and procolophonids, which were other...
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  • Skybalonyx (category Drepanosaurs)
    Skybalonyx is an extinct genus of drepanosaur from the Chinle Formation in the Late Triassic. The type and only known species is Skybalonyx skapter, meaning...
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    Drepanosaurus (category Drepanosaurs)
    unknown; however, the skull of Drepanosaurus was likely similar to other drepanosaurs, such as Megalancosaurus. Megalancosaurus' skull was approximately the...
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    paleobiology of the Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian: Adamanian-Apachean) drepanosaurs (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha: Drepanosauromorpha)". New Mexico Museum...
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    has been controversially proposed that they are closely related to the drepanosaurs, a group of arboreal diapsids native to northern Pangaea during the Late...
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    additionally qualify as archosauromorphs. The bizarre chameleon-like drepanosaurs were also included by many analyses, though more recently they have been...
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  • Ancistronychus (category Drepanosaurs)
    Ancistronychus is an extinct genus of drepanosaur from the Late Triassic Petrified Forest National Park in the Chinle Formation of Arizona. The type and...
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  • (hand claws). A drepanosaur related to Drepanosaurus. Avicranium A. renestoi New Mexico 'Siltstone' Skull and neck vertebrae. A drepanosaur with a toothless...
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  • Curiously, Gregory Paul has noted that the cervicals of Protoavis and drepanosaurs are astonishingly similar, such they are hardly distinguishable from...
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  • Dolabrosaurus (category Drepanosaurs)
    Dolabrosaurus is a genus of extinct reptile and a member of the family Drepanosauridae. Fossils of Dolabrosaurus have been found in the Chinle Formation...
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  • Life restoration of the Late Triassic drepanosaur Hypuronector...
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    anterior projection. The ilium of Vancleavea resembles those of unrelated drepanosaurs. The unique morphology of Vancleavea differs greatly from any other known...
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  • Kyrgyzsaurus (category Drepanosaurs)
    Kyrgyzsaurus is an extinct genus of drepanosaurid reptile known from the Triassic of southwestern Kyrgyzstan. It was discovered in the Madygen Formation...
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    remaining protorosaurs – including Protorosaurus, tanystropheids, and drepanosaurs in some studies – did not necessarily form a monophyletic group. An increasing...
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  • Quarry (Nursery Member), Edgewater Quarry Several partial skeletons A drepanosaur, originally known as "the deep-tailed swimmer". Icarosaurus I. siefkeri...
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    skeleton and scale impressions. Potentially the oldest known member of the drepanosaurs, a diverse clade of Triassic reptiles that evolved arboreal and fossorial...
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  • far the most commonly considered trackmaker for Gwyneddichnium, small drepanosaurs such as Hypuronector or Dolabrosaurus have also been proposed as trackmakers...
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    designed by Pritchard & Nesbitt (2017) to test the affinities of the beaked drepanosaur Avicranium. With Colobops incorporated into the analysis and several...
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    Megalancosaurus (category Drepanosaurs)
    paleobiology of the Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian: Adamanian-Apachean) drepanosaurs (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha: Drepanosauromorpha)". New Mexico Museum...
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