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- of Archosauria and other related groups. Nesbitt (2011) found that Proterochampsians share several distinguishing characteristics, or synapomorphies. A...
- genus of proterochampsid archosauriform. It was of modest size for a proterochampsian, being on average just over a meter in length. The type species is...
- Proterochampsidae is a family of proterochampsian archosauriforms. Proterochampsids may have filled an ecological niche similar to modern crocodiles, and...
- the archosaurs. Many phylogenetic analyses place the long-snouted proterochampsians as more closely related to archosaurs than euparkeriids were. Such...
- flying pterosaurs and birds, semiaquatic crocodilians, phytosaurs, and proterochampsians, and apex predators such as erythrosuchids, pseudosuchians, and theropod...
- Rhadinosuchus is an extinct genus of proterochampsian archosauriform reptile from the Late Tri****ic. It is known only from the type species Rhadinosuchus...
- Kuruxuchampsa is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptile from the Late Tri****ic-aged Santa Maria Formation of Brazil. It contains a single species,...
- exit foramen only present in the prootic) and another was found in proterochampsians (a swollen biceps tubercule), so their lack in phytosaurs may be reversals...
- avemetatarsalians, and archosaur relatives such as Euparkeria and proterochampsians. A hemicylindrical fibular condyle is also present in phytosaurs,...
- primitive condition seen in archosaur relatives such as Euparkeria and proterochampsians. Nevertheless, this reversion is undone in shuvosaurids (and possibly...