-
reconstruct the
skull of
aphanosaurs, they do show
several notable features. For example, the
shape of the
maxilla shows that
aphanosaurs had an
antorbital fenestra...
- and
plesiomorphic ("primitive")
known avemetatarsalians were the
aphanosaurs.
Aphanosaurs were rare, four-legged
carnivores which were only
properly distinguished...
- of
other early-diverging archosaurs,
including potential relatives (
aphanosaurs and early-diverging loricatans). The
axial skeleton of Incertovenator...
- Unusually,
Yarasuchus and
other aphanosaurs share a
number of
features convergently evolved with poposauroids.
Aphanosaurs and
poposauroids share only one...
-
lacks multiple characters of the
minimally inclusive clade containing aphanosaurs and ornithodirans, and is thus
nested outside of that clade. Preliminary...
- Tanzania, and
include Asilisaurus (an
early silesaurid),
Teleocrater (an
aphanosaur), and
Nyasasaurus (a
possible early dinosaur).[citation needed] Synapsids...
- a non-dinosaurian
reptile Spondylosoma –
subsequently found to be an
aphanosaur Squalodon –
subsequently found to be a
cetacean Staurikosaurus Stegoceras...
- Revueltosaurus, Xilousuchus, Effigia, Hesperosuchus),
basal avemetatarsalians (
aphanosaurs) non-archosaur
archosauriforms (Vancleavea, Halazhaisuchus), rhynchosaurs...
- with dicynodonts, cynognathians, probainognathians, pseudosuchians,
aphanosaurs, rhynchosaurs, and procolophonoids. The
Brazilian Dinodontosaurus ****emblage...
- have
small projections identified as epipophyses,
which are
present in
aphanosaurs and
dinosaurs but not
advanced silesaurids. The
dorsal vertebrae are...
