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Aetosaurs (/eɪˌɛtoʊˈsɔːr/) are
heavily armored reptiles belonging to the
extinct order Aetosauria (/eɪˌɛtoʊˈsɔːriə/; from Gr****, ἀετός (aetos, "eagle")...
- one of the two main
clades of
aetosaurs, the
other being Desmatosuchia. It is a stem-based
taxon defined as all
aetosaurs more
closely related to Aetosaurus...
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Paratypothorax is an
extinct genus of
aetosaur,
known from a
single species,
Paratypothorax andressorum. It was a
broadly distributed member of the group...
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Kuttysuchus is an
extinct group of
typothoracine aetosaur from the Late Tri****ic
Dharmaram Formation of India. It was
described in 2025 on the
basis of...
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desmatosuchin aetosaur from the Late Tri****ic of
North America.
Reported fossils from
Morocco are
likely misidentified scutes of a
paratypothoracin aetosaur. Longosuchus...
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large herbivores (such as
aetosaurs),
large carnivores ("rauisuchians"), and the
first crocodylomorphs ("sphenosuchians").
Aetosaurs were heavily-armored reptiles...
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Typothorax is an
extinct genus of
typothoracine aetosaur that
lived in the Late Tri****ic. Its
remains have been
found in
North America. Two
species are...
- A few
groups acquired herbivorous diets, such as the
heavily armored aetosaurs, and
several were bipedal, such as
Poposaurus and Postosuchus. The bizarre...
- rhynchosaurs.
Their main
competitors were the pseudosuchians, such as
aetosaurs,
ornithosuchids and rauisuchians,
which were more
successful than the...
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crocodilians such as non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, phytosaurs,
aetosaurs and
rauisuchians as well as many
Mesozoic marine reptiles.
Modern paleontologists...
