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- terrestrial and aquatic forms. While some tanystropheids were small lizard-like animals, other tanystropheids such as Tanystropheus were large animals...
- polyphyletic grouping of various long-necked reptiles including Protorosaurus, tanystropheids, and Prolacerta. Other groups including pantestudines (turtles and their...
- sister taxon to Tanytrachelos, a much smaller tanystropheid from Virginia. Another small tanystropheid, Cosesaurus from Spain, is allied with the Tanystropheus...
- Unlike other long-necked protorosaurs (which form a group known as the tanystropheids), Dinocephalosaurus convergently evolved a long neck not through elongation...
- Fuyuansaurus F. acutirostris A "protorosaur" archosauromorph, possibly a tanystropheid Glyphoderma G. kangi A placochelyid placodont Guizhouichthyosaurus G...
- protorosaurs, which is likely a paraphyletic group rather than a true clade. Tanystropheids were a family of protorosaurs which elevated their neck size to extremes...
- particularly basal tanystropheids such as Macrocnemus. However, it is uncertain whether Elessaurus was a particularly close relative of tanystropheids, and it might...
- relatives the tanystropheids, they were "protorosaur"-grade archosauromorphs characterized by their long necks. Unlike tanystropheids, which lengthen...
- discovery. Gracilicollum was a medium-sized tanystropheid. It demonstrates similarities to tanystropheids and dinocephalosaurids, both of which have proportionately...
- geological formation in Italy (Cene and Endenna [it]). Pterosaurs and Tanystropheids have been recovered in this formation. Aetosaurus ferratus Drepanosaurus...