Every time someone tells me “crocodiles are living fossils, they have never changed in millions of years” I go and reconstruct one of the MANY odd looking pseudosuchians (croc-line archosaurs) that will appear in my book

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It's finally out! 85 years in the making, but the early archosaur Mandasuchus tanyauchen from the Middle Triassic of Tanzania finally has an official name! New paper out now with David Gower & & art from : https://t.co/QCfw2J5jEN [thread]

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here's the female in my There's decent evidence suggesting that pt-donz w smaller crests & overall body size were ladies & the big crested weirdos wer dudes - one of very few clear cases of in the archosaur fossil record

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The mystery archosauriform is: Tropidosuchus romeri, from the Triassic (Ladinian) of the Chañares Formation, Argentina 🇦🇷. It belongs to a weird and little known group known as proterochampsians. This taxon and 4 more relatives will be in my book

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A female (left) and male (right) of some archosaur chimera dragon abomination that I drew and liked.

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Fossil Focus: The Archosaur Respiratory System — Or — Breathing Life into Dinosaurs https://t.co/P9Xeqijd71

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10 Facial soft tissues remain THE issues of dinosaur life appearance. There are heroes on both sides. Evil is everywhere.

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2. Small ornithischians (some? most? all?) had filamentous covering over much of the body & limbs. Not covered in scales.

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Today's The dinosauriform, Silesaurus, and archosauriforms, Vancleavea and Archosaurus

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'Nother - the delightful little archosauriform/water dragon, Vancleavea!

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