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length of 6
meters (20 ft),
making Tanystropheus the
longest non-archosauriform
archosauromorph as well.
Tanystropheus is the
namesake of the
family Tanystropheidae...
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juvenile Tanystropheus. The
skull of
Dinocephalosaurus was low and narrow, with a long
premaxilla and
maxilla compared to
those of
Tanystropheus. Both the...
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Friedrich von
Huene under the name
Tanystropheus antiquus (some
authors still prefer to
include this
species within Tanystropheus).
Sennikov (2011)
referred to...
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which elevated their neck size to extremes, with the
largest genus Tanystropheus having a neck
longer than its body. The
protorosaur family Sharovipterygidae...
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tanystropheids were
small lizard-like animals,
other tanystropheids such as
Tanystropheus were
large animals that had
necks that were
several meters long, longer...
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probably belonged to the
genus Tanystropheus (thought to be a
theropod at the time), and
named a new
species for it,
Tanystropheus posthumus. The
vertebra was...
- Proterosuchus)
rather than
Protorosaurus or
tanystropheids (specifically
Tanystropheus). This
group roughly corresponds to Laurin's
definition of Archosauromorpha...
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inclusive clade containing taxa such as Protorosaurus, Macrocnemus, and
Tanystropheus. Analyses, such as
Dilkes (1998), Sues (2003),
Modesto & Sues (2004)...
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clade Tanysauria includes all taxa that are more
closely related to
Tanystropheus longobardicus,
Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, and
Trachelosaurus fischeri...
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vertebrae in the neck alone, far more than the 13 neck
vertebrae of
Tanystropheus.
Trachelosaurids are
known from
Europe (Poland, Germany, Austria, Netherlands)...
