Phytosaurs (Φυτόσαυροι in Greek, meaning 'plant lizard') are an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic Late Triassic archosauriform reptiles. Phytosaurs...
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and possibly bird-line archosaurs too if the extinct, crocodile-like phytosaurs are more distantly related to crocodiles than traditionally thought. Prior...
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Parasuchidae (category Phytosaurs)
Parasuchidae is a clade of phytosaurs more derived than Diandongosuchus, a basal phytosaur. This family was phylogenetically defined by Christian Kammerer...
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Smilosuchus (category Phytosaurs)
closely related to mystriosuchins than to Leptosuchus species. Like all phytosaurs, Smilosuchus had the nostrils close to the top of its head. The rostral...
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Bull Canyon Formation (section Phytosaurs)
Hungerbühler, Axel; Martz, Jeffrey W. (2012). "The taxonomic status of the phytosaurs (Archosauriformes) Machaeroprosopus and Pseudopalatus from the Late Triassic...
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Jupijkam (category Phytosaurs)
Jupijkam is an extinct genus of phytosaur from the Late Triassic of Nova Scotia, Canada. The genus is monotypic, including only the species Jupijkam paleofluvialis...
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Colossosuchus (category Phytosaurs)
of large mystriosuchine phytosaur from the Upper Triassic Tiki Formation of India. It was among the largest known phytosaurs, reaching a length of over...
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Rutiodon (category Phytosaurs)
Rutiodon ("Wrinkle tooth") is an extinct genus of mystriosuchine phytosaurs from the Late Triassic of the eastern United States. The type species of Rutiodon...
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relatives of birds and crocodilians such as non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, phytosaurs, aetosaurs and rauisuchians as well as many Mesozoic marine reptiles....
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pterosaurs, and their relatives), as well as the abundant crocodilian-like phytosaurs, which may either be true archosaurs or very close relatives of Archosauria...
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Phytosauria, outside Pseudosuchia. Since the definition of Crurotarsi relies on phytosaurs, their placement outside Pseudosuchia (and thus Archosauria) means that...
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Paleorhinus (category Phytosaurs)
Paleorhinus (Greek: "Old Nose") is an extinct genus of widespread basal phytosaur known from the Late Triassic (late Carnian stage). The genus was named...
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formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus. Phytosaur remains attributable to the genus Volcanosuchus have also been found in...
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Acanthostega and Ichthyostega, and unique triassic animals such as the phytosaur Mystriosuchus alleroq and the dinosaurs Issi saaneq and tracks. Greenland...
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Redondasaurus (category Phytosaurs)
Redondasaurus is an extinct genus or subgenus of phytosaur from the Late Triassic (late Norian or Rhaetian) of the southwestern United States. It was...
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Mystriosuchus (category Phytosaurs)
Mystriosuchus (meaning "spoon-crocodile") is an extinct genus of phytosaur that lived in the Late Triassic (middle Norian) in Europe and Greenland. It...
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erythrosuchids were among the dominant carnivores in the early Triassic. Phytosaurs were a particularly common group which prospered during the Late Triassic...
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Beipiaosaurus Beishanlong Bellusaurus Belodon – subsequently found to be a phytosaur Berberosaurus Berthasaura Betasuchus Bicentenaria Bienosaurus "Bihariosaurus"...
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probably protozoan cysts were found in the Late Triassic coprolite of phytosaur. This rare find in Thailand reveals more about the ecology of prehistoric...
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the other groups of early archosaurs, like aetosaurs, ornithosuchids, phytosaurs, and rauisuchians. Rhynchosaurs and dicynodonts survived (at least in...
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Machaeroprosopus (category Phytosaurs)
'bordering on') is an extinct genus of mystriosuchin leptosuchomorph phytosaur from the Late Triassic of the southwestern United States. M. validus,...
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Protome batalaria (category Phytosaurs)
Protome is an extinct genus of parasuchid phytosaur from the Late Triassic of Arizona, represented by a single species, Protome batalaria. It is known...
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List of marine reptiles (section Phytosaurs)
Following is a list of marine reptiles, reptiles which are adapted to life in marine or brackish environments. The following marine reptiles are species...
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Phytosaurus (category Phytosaurs)
extinct parasuchid phytosaur found in an outcrop of the Keuper (likely the Exter Formation) in Germany. Phytosaurus was the first phytosaur to be described...
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Nicrosaurus (category Phytosaurs)
Nicrosaurus (/nɪkroʊˈsɔrəs/) is an extinct genus of phytosaur reptile existing during the Late Triassic period. Although it looked like a crocodile (and...
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and many other plants as well as fauna including giant reptiles called phytosaurs, large amphibians, and early dinosaurs. Paleontologists have been unearthing...
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convergent similarities in craniodental anatomy between spinosaurs and phytosaurs. D'Amore et al. (2024) study the morphology of the skull and teeth of...
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renamed Dacentrurus because the name Omosaurus had already been used for a phytosaur. After 1875, half a dozen other species would be named but perhaps only...
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various groups of dinosaurs (most notably ankylosaurs and stegosaurians), phytosaurs, aetosaurs, placodonts, and hupehsuchians (marine reptiles with possible...
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Geological strata known to contain the fossils of the extinct group of reptiles known as phytosaurs occur predominantly in the United States and Europe....
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