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The Rauisuchians were a group of Crocodile relatives from around the time dinosaurs first appeared, they're Interesting becouse due to Convergent Evolution (AKA Animals evolving similar features dispite not being releated) they look a lot like actual dinosaurs dispite being

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2021-11-28

Fasalosuchus was one of the biggest rauisuchians (maybe the biggest), at 8-10 meters long. It’s H in this figure, check out the scale bars to get an idea of the size difference.

📸 et al 2013: https://t.co/EqfrGZwkMQ

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2020-10-06

F is for Fasolasuchus (B in this pic), a very distant croc-relative from the Triassic of Argentina. It’s in a messy part of the tree we sometimes lump together and call “Rauisuchians.”

📸 Lessner et al 2016: https://t.co/3k8BveHwLn

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2020-10-06

People still butthurt over theropods having feather should just redirect their fandom energy to the Rauisuchians instead since those actually were scaly carnivorous bipedal reptiles.
https://t.co/clpe07RN59
https://t.co/DY5Mf8V6cg
https://t.co/eBHLMW9ZnK
https://t.co/3kbCdFstHN

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2020-07-14

Our new paper describing first fossils of rauisuchian archosaurs from Triassic of southern Africa:

https://t.co/sSpRZ9S7ET

Paper led by Rick Tolchard of , with & Julia Desojo.

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2019-09-18