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terrestrial and
aquatic forms.
While some
tanystropheids were
small lizard-like animals,
other tanystropheids such as
Tanystropheus were
large animals...
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polyphyletic grouping of
various long-necked
reptiles including Protorosaurus,
tanystropheids, and Prolacerta.
Other groups including pantestudines (turtles and their...
- long-necked
tanystropheid from the
Middle Tri****ic
Moenkopi Formation (Anisian)
provides insights into the
ecology and
biogeography of
tanystropheids". Palaeontologia...
- vatagini.
Augustaburiania is the
oldest known tanystropheid. Sennikov, A. G. (2011). "New
tanystropheids (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Tri****ic...
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relatives the
tanystropheids, they were "protorosaur"-grade
archosauromorphs characterized by
their long necks.
Unlike tanystropheids,
which lengthen...
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hypothesized to have
lived a more
terrestrial lifestyle than many
other tanystropheids,
which may have been aquatic. The
Luxisaurus holotype specimen, H****...
- 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...
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short compared to
other tanystropheids, Sanz & López-Martínez (1984) and
Saller (2016) note that the
necks of
tanystropheids tend to
become proportionally...
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particularly basal tanystropheids such as Macrocnemus. However, it is
uncertain whether Elessaurus was a
particularly close relative of
tanystropheids, and it might...
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Unlike other long-necked
protorosaurs (which form a
group known as the
tanystropheids),
Dinocephalosaurus convergently evolved a long neck not
through elongation...
