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- paraphyletic group of mostly large and carnivorous Tri****ic archosaurs. Rauisuchians are a category of archosaurs within a larger group called Pseudosuchia...
- last "rauisuchians" to have existed before the order became extinct at the end of the Tri****ic. Fasolasuchus is likely the largest known "rauisuchian", with...
- Teratosaurus is a genus of rauisuchians known from the Tri****ic Stubensandstein (Löwenstein Formation - Norian stage) of Germany. It is estimated to be...
- bending stresses on limbs. Some non-dinosaurian archosaurs, including rauisuchians, also had erect limbs but achieved this by a "pillar-erect" configuration...
- crocodilians such as non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, phytosaurs, aetosaurs and rauisuchians as well as many Mesozoic marine reptiles. Modern paleontologists define...
- including large herbivores (such as aetosaurs), large carnivores ("rauisuchians"), and the first crocodylomorphs ("sphenosuchians"). Aetosaurs were heavily-armored...
- pseudosuchians, including the herbivorous aetosaurs and carnivorous "rauisuchians", became extinct. The morphological diversity of crocodylomorphs during...
- Saurosuchus and Postosuchus. It has historically been referred to as a "rauisuchian", and was the defining member of the family Prestosuchidae, though the...
- considered them to be from an indeterminate species of rauisuchian. Saurosuchus was a large rauisuchian, measuring 5.5–7 m (18–23 ft) long and weighing over...
- of as carnivorous at that time, owing to the incorrect ****ociation of rauisuchian skulls and teeth with prosauropod bodies, in animals such as Teratosaurus)...