- are
abundant in
certain localities,
aetosaurs serve as
important Late Tri****ic
tetrapod index fossils. Many
aetosaurs had wide
geographic ranges, but their...
- A few
groups acquired herbivorous diets, such as the
heavily armored aetosaurs, and
several were bipedal, such as
Poposaurus and Postosuchus. The bizarre...
- 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...
- and
crocodilians such as non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, phytosaurs,
aetosaurs and
rauisuchians as well as many
Mesozoic marine reptiles.
Modern paleontologists...
-
large herbivores (such as
aetosaurs),
large carnivores ("rauisuchians"), and the
first crocodylomorphs ("sphenosuchians").
Aetosaurs were heavily-armored reptiles...
-
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...
- side of the
paramedian osteoderms have not been found. As with
other aetosaurs, the
paramedian osteoderms are
wider than they are long, however, in this...
-
groups such as
early dinosaurs,
phytosaurs (crocodile-like carnivores),
aetosaurs (armored herbivores), and
crocodylomorphs (lightly-built
crocodilian ancestors)...
-
Typothorax and
other aetosaurs possess small, leaf-shaped
teeth that were
unsuited for a diet
consisting of meat.
Unlike some
aetosaurs such as Desmatosuchus...
-
position among aetosaurs,
Aetobarbakinoides is
closely related to both
desmatosuchines and typothoracisines, two
derived clades of
aetosaurs. Aetobarbakinoides...
