- (distant
relatives of
modern crocodilians) from the Tri****ic period.
Ornithosuchids were
quadrupedal and
facultatively bipedal (e.g. like chimpanzees),...
- Venaticosuchus,
which is
known from the
Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina.
Ornithosuchids are one of many
groups which lived in the
Santa Maria and Ischigualasto...
-
later ornithosuchids. However, at the same time,
Brinkman noted a
number of
other traits in
Gracilisuchus that
differ from "advanced"
ornithosuchids. These...
- yet been
thoroughly studied; it may be a rauisuchid, prestosuchid, an
ornithosuchid pseudosuchian (part of the
crocodilian lineage of archosaurs) or a theropod...
-
Their main
competitors were the pseudosuchians, such as aetosaurs,
ornithosuchids and rauisuchians,
which were more
successful than the dinosaurs. Most...
-
Riojasuchus is an
extinct genus of
ornithosuchid archosaur from the Late Tri****ic (Norian) of Argentina.
Ornithosuchidae was a
widespread family of facultatively...
- as an
ornithosuchid, the
fragmentary holotype specimen of
Strigosuchus has been
suggested to be from a
sphenosuchian rather than an
ornithosuchid. Other...
- definitions, all
descendants of the
common ancestor of
modern crocodiles,
ornithosuchids, aetosaurs, and phytosaurs;
Nesbitt (2011)
provided a
shorter definition...
- with the "normal"
ankle and
Ornithosuchidae with the "reversed" ankle.
Ornithosuchids were
thought to be
ancestral to
dinosaurs at this time. In 1979, A.R...
- dubium. The lack of
synapomorphies shared by
ornithosuchids indicates that
Dasygnathoides was not an
ornithosuchid as
previously thought, but
there are no...
