Phytosauria is a nearly cosmopolitan clade of large, quadrupedal, carnivorous archosauriforms. They are known unambiguously from Late Triassic deposits, although the …
MR Stocker, LJ Zhao, SJ Nesbitt, XC Wu, C Li - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Following the end-Permian extinction, terrestrial vertebrate diversity recovered by the Middle Triassic, and that diversity was now dominated by reptiles. However, those reptilian clades …
TM Scheyer, JB Desojo, IA Cerda - The Anatomical Record, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
As in other archosauriforms, phytosaurs and aetosaurs are characterized by the presence of well‐developed osteoderms. Here we provide a comparative study on the microstructure of …
The Post Quarry, within the lower part of the type section of the Upper Triassic Cooper Canyon Formation in southern Garza County, western Texas, contains a remarkably diverse …
D Datta, S Ray - Papers in Palaeontology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A new Mystriosuchinae phytosaur, Colossosuchus techniensis, is described from the Upper Triassic Tiki Formation of India. Colossosuchus is diagnosed by multiple apomorphies …
Archosauria include two extant clades, crocodylians and avians. However, the diversification of the avian and crocodylian crown groups are relatively recent events that began during the …
Phytosauria is a clade of large, carnivorous, semi-aquatic archosauromorphs which reached its peak diversity and an almost global distribution in the Late Triassic (c. 230–201 Mya) …
J Bestwick, AS Jones, SJ Nesbitt… - The Anatomical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Pseudosuchians, archosaurian reptiles more closely related to crocodylians than to birds, exhibited high morphological diversity during the Triassic with numerous examples of …
The neotype skull of the Indian phytosaur P arasuchus hislopi L ydekker, 1885 (ISI R 42) is re‐evaluated and compared with the type material of other basal phytosaurs. P arasuchus …