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- Tri****ic, to the Miocene (168 to 20 or possibly 11.6 million years ago). Choristoderes are morphologically diverse, with the best known members being the crocodile-like...
- pantestudines (turtles and their extinct relatives) and the semiaquatic choristoderes have also been placed in Archosauromorpha by some authors. Archosauromorpha...
- Neochoristodera is a lineage of specialised crocodile-like fully aquatic choristodere reptiles. Noted for their long jaws and large size, these animals were...
- genera of choristodere are known from the Jur****ic. One is the small lizard-like Cteniogenys, thought to be the most basal known choristodere; it is known...
- Monjurosuchus was a small choristodere, reaching a total body length of 30–40 cm (0.98–1.31 ft). Unlike related choristoderes, Monjurosuchus has a relatively...
- punctuated by ice ages and re-establishment of East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Choristoderes, the last non-crocodilian crocodylomorphs and creodonts go extinct....
- as the remains were the youngest known choristodere fossils, and resembled the most primitive choristodere known, the Middle-Late Jur****ic Cteniogenys...
- remained rare, with their remains outnumbering terrestrial lizards 200:1. Choristoderes, a group of freshwater aquatic reptiles that first appeared during the...
- large reptiles, only the semi-aquatic crocodiles and broadly similar choristoderes survived the extinction, with last members of the latter, the lizard-like...
- back to three lineages of frogs that evolved after the cataclysm. The choristoderes (a group of semi-aquatic diapsids of uncertain position) survived across...