Definition of Avemetatarsalian. Meaning of Avemetatarsalian. Synonyms of Avemetatarsalian

- to birds than to crocodilians. The two most successful groups of avemetatarsalians were the dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Dinosaurs were the largest terrestrial...
- Mambachiton (meaning "crocodile armour") is an extinct genus of basal avemetatarsalian from the Middle/Upper Tri****ic Makay Formation (Isalo II beds) of Madagascar...
- related to other traditional "crurotarsans", at least compared to avemetatarsalians such as pterosaurs and dinosaurs. As a result, Crurotarsi could be...
- Nyasasaurus (meaning "Lake Nyasa lizard") is an extinct genus of avemetatarsalian archosaur from the ****tively Middle Tri****ic Manda Formation of Tanzania...
- primitive known clade of avemetatarsalians, at least in terms of their position on the archosaur family tree. Other avemetatarsalians include the flying pterosaurs...
- Ixalerpeton (meaning "leaping reptile") is a genus of lagerpetid avemetatarsalian containing one species, I. polesinensis. It lived in the Late Tri****ic...
- archosaurs appeared, including pseudosuchians (crocodile relatives) and avemetatarsalians (bird/dinosaur relatives). The Middle Tri****ic spans from 247 million...
- Dinosauromorpha is a clade of avemetatarsalians (archosaurs closer to birds than to crocodilians) that includes the Dinosauria (dinosaurs) and some of...
- ancestors to birds) and Pseudosuchia (the ancestors to crocodilians). Avemetatarsalians were a minor component of their ecosystems, but eventually produced...
- provided more stability when the animals were running. The earliest avemetatarsalians, such as Teleocrater and Asilisaurus, retained "primitive mesotarsal"...