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Today’s is Mystriosuchus Fraas 1896. These including M. westphali & M. planirostris, have a looooong slender snout & short squamosals. A 3rd one, M. steinbergeri, was added in 2019. It's from Austria & was marine!

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2021-10-19

SMIL-ing through the pain? A specimen of the Triassic phytosaur shows evidence of extensive bone fractures and healing consistent with In this diagram, all the indicated bones had some kind of fracture!

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2021-06-12

Another day gone by, another day without a new painting. Sigh. Here's some of the phytosaur Mystriosuchus steinbergeri to keep things ticking over.

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2021-02-27

Fun fact the crocodilian niche and body plan is so good that it convergently evolved several times in animals that aren't particularly related.

Phytosaurs are perhaps the clearest example.

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2020-12-04

Crocodilians totally copied Phytosaurs homework! Someone tell the teacher!

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2019-10-18

This description of a new species of phytosaur made a bit of a 💦splash💦 when it was first published back in May, but if you missed it check it out now in our September issue: https://t.co/UpyNDLwppI | Copyright:

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2019-09-25

Une nouvelle espèce de un reptile marin (et non pas un crocodile !) de 210 Ma, décrite ! Alors que les 1ers découverts vivaient en eau douce, cette espèce évoluait en milieu marin.

Source : https://t.co/4qThlMXENF via

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2019-05-19

Phytosaurs are crocodile-like reptiles known from from lake and river deposits worldwide. Their fossils are abundant in the Late Triassic, particularly from Germany and the southwest USA. Image by Jeff Martz. (2/n)

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2019-05-09

New paper THREAD! We describe a Mystriosuchus steinbergeri, a new species of marine phytosaur from 210 million-year-old rocks of the Late Triassic in Austria! Our paper includes this amazing life restoration by the brilliant ! (1/n)

https://t.co/BJqdntbpKL

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2019-05-09