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Hyperodapedon was a stocky rhynchosaur from the Late Triassic period. It grew to 1.3 metres long.

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2021-09-16

Interested in the Triassic stem-archosaurs from South America? Check our recently published revision of the group. New information about rhynchosaurs, proterosuchids, proterochampsids, and other Triassic archosaur precursors!

https://t.co/CXtvb0bHng

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2020-10-17

Rhynchosaurs were a diverse group of early archosauromorphs that lived exclusively during the Triassic. Here are details of some of the illustrations of rhynchosaurs that will be appearing in my in-prep book.

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2020-03-09

Beaks have appeared separately numerous times in tetrapod evolution. I have depicted 5 examples here: dicynodonts (top left), pantestudines (center), rhynchosaurs (top right), shuvosaurid pseudosuchians (bottom left) and ceratopsian dinosaurs (bottom right)

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2019-09-26

Teyumbaita sulcognathus was a of the Late of Brazil

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2019-04-07

R is for rhynchosaur.

Rhynchosaur was a reptilian parrot beaked pig from the Triassic that ate mainly tubers and roots. (not literally a pig, but a fat lizard none the less)Illustration for extinct series.

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2019-01-23

After a long weekend out of town, I was finally able to finish my latest reconstruction of the derived rhynchosaur Hyperodapedon. Was somewhat prompted to do this after seeing how few reconstructions there are on Google; really surprising considering how awesome it is!

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2019-01-16

R is for Rhynchosaurus. Catching up with the

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2018-10-08

Week 18 of drawing challenge for .... the Rhynchosaurus was known for its large shearing teeth. Losing a tooth this size was very lucrative to infant Rhynchosauruses when the dino tooth fairy came to visit...

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2018-10-06

Hyperodapedon was a stocky rhynchosaur from the Late Triassic period. It grew to 1.3 metres long.

(Credit: Nobu Tamura)

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