- "
phytosaur"
means "plant lizard", as the
first fossils of
phytosaurs were
mistakenly thought to
belong to
plant eaters. For many years,
phytosaurs were...
- been
changed by the
phylogenetic placement of
phytosaurs. In 2011,
Sterling J.
Nesbitt found phytosaurs to be the
sister taxon of Archosauria, and therefore...
- phylogeny.
Because Crurotarsi is
defined by the
inclusion of
phytosaurs, the
placement of
phytosaurs outside Archosauria means that
Crurotarsi must include...
- the
possibly basal phylogenetic position of the
phytosaurs. This
means that
grouping the
phytosaurs and
crocodilians into a
clade while excluding the...
-
extinct tribe (formerly subfamily) of
derived phytosaurs in the
clade Leptosuchomorpha. As with all
other phytosaurs,
mystriosuchins lived during Late Tri****ic...
- encomp****es
nearly all
phytosaurs,
including early Parasuchus-grade
forms as well as a more
restricted clade of more
specialized phytosaurs. This more restricted...
-
Ichthyostega from the
Devonian and
unique Tri****ic
animals such as the
phytosaur Mystriosuchus alleroq and the
dinosaurs Issi
saaneq and tracks. Greenland...
-
Rutiodon (meaning "wrinkle tooth") is an
extinct genus of
mystriosuchine phytosaurs from the Late Tri****ic of the
eastern United States. The type species...
-
Chalk were led by UMMP
paleontologists starting in 1927.
Several new
phytosaur species were
discovered during these digs.
University of
Oklahoma paleontologists...
- the
other groups of
early archosaurs, like aetosaurs, ornithosuchids,
phytosaurs, and rauisuchians.
Rhynchosaurs and
dicynodonts survived (at
least in...
