Aetosaurs (/eɪˌɛtoʊˈsɔːr/) are heavily armored reptiles belonging to the extinct order Aetosauria (/eɪˌɛtoʊˈsɔːriə/; from Greek, ἀετός (aetos, "eagle")...
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large herbivores (such as aetosaurs), large carnivores ("rauisuchians"), and the first crocodylomorphs ("sphenosuchians"). Aetosaurs were heavily-armored reptiles...
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Typothorax (category Aetosaurs of North America)
Typothorax is an extinct genus of typothoracine aetosaur that lived in the Late Triassic. Its remains have been found in North America. Two species are...
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and crocodilians such as non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, phytosaurs, aetosaurs and rauisuchians as well as many Mesozoic marine reptiles. Modern paleontologists...
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A few groups acquired herbivorous diets, such as the heavily armored aetosaurs, and several were bipedal, such as Poposaurus and Postosuchus. The bizarre...
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Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona, United States) that is the largest aetosaur specimen reported to date, and report that the studied individual likely...
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Aetosaurus (category Aetosaurs)
order Aetosauria. It is generally considered to be the most primitive aetosaur. Three species are currently recognized: A. ferratus, the type species...
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evidence that the studied specimen is not a juvenile form of another known aetosaur, and providing new information on the anatomy of C. kahleorum. Review of...
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rhynchosaurs. Their main competitors were the pseudosuchians, such as aetosaurs, ornithosuchids and rauisuchians, which were more successful than the...
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and on its implications for the knowledge of the paleobiology of this aetosaur, is published by Ponce, Desojo & Cerda (2022). Description of the anatomy...
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2025 in archosaur paleontology (section Aetosaurs)
This article records new taxa of fossil archosaurs of every kind that are scheduled described during the year 2025, as well as other significant discoveries...
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Desmatosuchus (category Aetosaurs of North America)
shovel-like structure. Desmatosuchus is unique among aetosaurs in that its species are the only known aetosaurs that lacked teeth on their premaxillae. Their...
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a basal aetosaur, possibly distinct from Aetosauroides scagliai, and preserving anatomical features which aren't often preserved in aetosaur specimens...
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S2CID 83536253. Parker, William G. (2016-08-30). "Osteology of the Late Triassic aetosaur Scutarx deltatylus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia)". PeerJ. 4: e2411. doi:10...
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Paratypothorax (category Aetosaurs of North America)
Paratypothorax is an extinct genus of aetosaur, known from a single species, Paratypothorax andressorum. It was a broadly distributed member of the group...
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pseudosuchians to survive. All other pseudosuchians, including the herbivorous aetosaurs and carnivorous "rauisuchians", became extinct. The morphological diversity...
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Stagonolepis (category Aetosaurs)
Stagonolepis is an extinct genus of stagonolepidid aetosaur known from the Late Triassic (Carnian stage) Hassberge Formation of Germany, the Drawno Beds...
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descendants of the common ancestor of modern crocodiles, ornithosuchids, aetosaurs, and phytosaurs; Nesbitt (2011) provided a shorter definition, defining...
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Garzapelta (category Aetosaurs of North America)
Garzapelta is an extinct genus of aetosaur from the Late Triassic Cooper Canyon Formation containing a single species, G. muelleri. Garzapelta is known...
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extinct; some of the groups which died out were previously abundant, such as aetosaurs, phytosaurs, and rauisuchids. Plants, crocodylomorphs, dinosaurs, pterosaurs...
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Aetosauroides (category Aetosaurs)
"Aetosaurus-like") is an extinct genus of aetosaur from the Late Triassic of South America. It is one of four aetosaurs known from South America, the others...
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Polesinesuchus (category Aetosaurs)
Polesinesuchus is an extinct genus of stagonolepidid aetosaur known from the Late Triassic of southern Brazil. Fossils have been found from the Santa Maria...
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Kryphioparma (category Aetosaurs of North America)
Kryphioparma is an extinct genus of aetosaur from the Late Triassic Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation, Arizona. It is the oldest known member of...
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Venkatasuchus is an extinct genus of aetosaur from the Late Triassic Dharmaram Formation of India. It was described in 2023 on the basis of a series of...
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Longosuchus (category Aetosaurs of North America)
desmatosuchin aetosaur from the Late Triassic of North America. Reported fossils from Morocco are likely misidentified scutes of a paratypothoracin aetosaur. Longosuchus...
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of dinosaurs (most notably ankylosaurs and stegosaurians), phytosaurs, aetosaurs, placodonts, and hupehsuchians (marine reptiles with possible ichthyosaur...
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Hunt, Adrian P.; Lucas, Spencer G. (1992). "The first occurrence of the aetosaur Paratypothorax andressi (Reptilia, Aetosauria) in the western United States...
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Desmatosuchinae (category Aetosaurs)
Desmatosuchinae is a major subfamily of aetosaurs within the clade Desmatosuchia. It is a stem-based taxon defined as all aetosaurs more closely related to Desmatosuchus...
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Aetosaurinae (category Aetosaurs)
one of the two main clades of aetosaurs, the other being Desmatosuchia. It is a stem-based taxon defined as all aetosaurs more closely related to Aetosaurus...
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diversity of Triassic tetrapod groups such as phytosaurs, rauisuchians, aetosaurs and dicynodonts happening during the Norian-Rhaetian transition; the authors...
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