- (distant
relatives of
modern crocodilians) from the Tri****ic period.
Ornithosuchids were
quadrupedal and
facultatively bipedal (e.g. like chimpanzees),...
- with the "normal"
ankle and
Ornithosuchidae with the "reversed" ankle.
Ornithosuchids were
thought to be
ancestral to
dinosaurs at this time. In 1979, A.R...
-
Their main
competitors were the pseudosuchians, such as aetosaurs,
ornithosuchids and rauisuchians,
which were more
successful than the dinosaurs. Most...
- yet been
thoroughly studied; it may be a rauisuchid, prestosuchid, an
ornithosuchid pseudosuchian (part of the
crocodilian lineage of archosaurs) or a theropod...
-
later ornithosuchids. However, at the same time,
Brinkman noted a
number of
other traits in
Gracilisuchus that
differ from "advanced"
ornithosuchids. These...
- definitions, all
descendants of the
common ancestor of
modern crocodiles,
ornithosuchids, aetosaurs, and phytosaurs;
Nesbitt (2011)
provided a
shorter definition...
- apex
predators such as Saurosuchus, Prestosuchus, and Fasolasuchus.
Ornithosuchids were
large scavengers,
while erpetosuchids and
gracilisuchids were small...
-
History of
science portal dinosaurs portal Sennikov (2024)
interprets ornithosuchids as
macrophagous predators with
specialized jaw apparatus, and notes...
-
Riojasuchus is an
extinct genus of
ornithosuchid archosaur from the Late Tri****ic (Norian) of Argentina.
Ornithosuchidae was a
widespread family of facultatively...
-
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...
