-
terrestrial and
aquatic forms.
While some
tanystropheids were
small lizard-like animals,
other tanystropheids such as
Tanystropheus were
large animals...
-
polyphyletic grouping of
various long-necked
reptiles including Protorosaurus,
tanystropheids, and Prolacerta.
Other groups including pantestudines (turtles and their...
- be a
polyphyletic or
paraphyletic taxon. Protorosaurus, Macrocnemus,
tanystropheids, and
various other protorosaurs are
usually placed near the base of...
- long-necked
tanystropheid from the
Middle Tri****ic
Moenkopi Formation (Anisian)
provides insights into the
ecology and
biogeography of
tanystropheids". Palaeontologia...
- protorosaurs,
which is
likely a
paraphyletic group rather than a true clade.
Tanystropheids were a
family of
protorosaurs which elevated their neck size to extremes...
- (rauisuchids)
having died out. Phytosaurs, drepanosaurs, trilophosaurids,
tanystropheids, and procolophonids,
which were
other common reptiles in the late Tri****ic...
- by both
Prolacerta and
tanystropheids.
Boreopricea shared certain adaptations of the
hands and feet with only
tanystropheids, yet the
shape of its sca****...
-
particularly basal tanystropheids such as Macrocnemus. However, it is
uncertain whether Elessaurus was a
particularly close relative of
tanystropheids, and it might...
- discovery.
Gracilicollum was a medium-sized
tanystropheid. It
demonstrates similarities to
tanystropheids and dinocephalosaurids, both of
which have proportionately...
-
Unlike other long-necked
protorosaurs (which form a
group known as the
tanystropheids),
Dinocephalosaurus convergently evolved a long neck not
through elongation...
