- (distant
relatives of
modern crocodilians) from the Tri****ic period.
Ornithosuchids were
quadrupedal and
facultatively bipedal (e.g. like chimpanzees),...
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Their main
competitors were the pseudosuchians, such as aetosaurs,
ornithosuchids and rauisuchians,
which were more
successful than the dinosaurs. Most...
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later ornithosuchids. However, at the same time,
Brinkman noted a
number of
other traits in
Gracilisuchus that
differ from "advanced"
ornithosuchids. These...
- yet been
thoroughly studied; it may be a rauisuchid, prestosuchid, an
ornithosuchid pseudosuchian (part of the
crocodilian lineage of archosaurs) or a theropod...
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incorporated a
myriad of
features present in the
other two
genera of
ornithosuchids,
Ornithosuchus and Riojasuchus. However, it also had
several unique...
- the
family Ornithosuchidae,
although at
least one
analysis classifies ornithosuchids as
close relatives of
erpetosuchids (which are
usually considered suchians)...
- Venaticosuchus,
which is
known from the
Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina.
Ornithosuchids are one of many
groups which lived in the
Santa Maria and Ischigualasto...
-
Riojasuchus is an
extinct genus of
ornithosuchid archosaur from the Late Tri****ic (Norian) of Argentina.
Ornithosuchidae was a
widespread family of facultatively...
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calcaneum (the “crocodile normal” tarsus); only in the
skeletons of the
ornithosuchid pseudosuchians a peg on the
calcaneum fits into a
socket in the astragalus...
- apex
predators such as Saurosuchus, Prestosuchus, and Fasolasuchus.
Ornithosuchids were
large scavengers,
while erpetosuchids and
gracilisuchids were small...
