Sentence examples for basal archosaurs from inspiring English sources

Chirotheres are the tracks of basal archosaurs.

Sterling J. Nesbitt (2011) revised the classification of basal archosaurs, and using the most comprehensive phylogenetic analysis for this group (to date) found Prestosuchidae to be non-monophyletic.

Teeth from the Chenini Formation in Tunisia which are "narrow, somewhat rounded in cross-section, and lack the anterior and posterior serrated edges characteristic of theropods and basal archosaurs" were assigned to Spinosaurus in 2000.

Taxa were chosen for completeness, accessibility, and phylogenetic representation of the lineage from basal archosaurs to extant birds.

Basal archosaurs such as Erythrosuchus already show FLB type [17], [40] as do the first dinosaurs (e.g., [41], [42]).

Although doubt was cast recently on the use of fossae as evidence of pneumaticity in basal archosaurs [31], a new basal suchian (distant crocodilian relative) has just been described with cervical pleurocoels [32].

An early candidate for the ancestor of dinosaurs was a small basal archosaur from the Early Triassic Epoch (252.2 million to 247.2 million years ago) of South Africa called Euparkeria.

A minority of scientists, most notably Alan Feduccia and Larry Martin, have proposed other evolutionary paths, including revised versions of Heilmann's basal archosaur proposal, or that maniraptoran theropods are the ancestors of birds but themselves are not dinosaurs, only convergent with dinosaurs.

Although aetosaurs are known exclusively from the Late Triassic, their currently accepted position in archosaur phylogeny indicates that they originated from more basal pseudosuchian archosaurs in the Early or Middle Triassic.

Within amniotes, true tympanic ears were not thought to have evolved until the Mesozoic [7], [9], when they finally appear independently in basal mammals, lepidosaurs, archosaurs, and turtles.

Tetrapod footprints at Moyeni include tracks produced ornithischian and theropod dinosaurs (ichnogenera Anomoepus, Grallator), basal tetrapods (ichnogenus Episcopopus), and crurotarsal archosaurs ("chirotheroid -type ichirotheroid -type