- to
birds than to crocodilians. The two most
successful groups of
avemetatarsalians were the
dinosaurs and pterosaurs.
Dinosaurs were the
largest terrestrial...
-
traditional "crurotarsans", at
least compared to "bird-line archosaurs" (
Avemetatarsalians) such as
pterosaurs and dinosaurs. As a result,
Crurotarsi could be...
-
Dinosauromorpha is a
clade of
avemetatarsalians (archosaurs
closer to
birds than to crocodilians) that
includes the
Dinosauria (dinosaurs) and some of...
-
primitive known clade of
avemetatarsalians, at
least in
terms of
their position on the
archosaur family tree.
Other avemetatarsalians include the
flying pterosaurs...
-
provided more
stability when the
animals were running. The
earliest avemetatarsalians, such as
Teleocrater and Asilisaurus,
retained "primitive mesotarsal"...
- pseudosuchians),
though the
later recognition of
aphanosaurs as early-diverging
avemetatarsalians corrected this view. The
results of the
phylogenetic analyses of Nesbit...
-
phylogenetic analysis,
protofeathers would have had a
common origin with
avemetatarsalians.
Although rare,
complete casts of
theropod endocrania are
known from...
- from the formation,
including suchians (crocodilian relatives) and
avemetatarsalians (dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and
their relatives), as well as the abundant...
-
archosaurs appeared,
including pseudosuchians (crocodile relatives) and
avemetatarsalians (bird/dinosaur relatives). The
Middle Tri****ic
spans from 247 million...
- Archosauromorpha. In the 1980s,
early cladistic analyses found that they were
Avemetatarsalians (archosaurs
closer to
dinosaurs than to crocodilians). As this would...
