Poposauridae
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Poposauridae is a family of large carnivorous archosaurs which lived alongside dinosaurs during the Late Triassic. They were around long. Poposaurids are known from fossil remains from North and South America. While originally believed to be theropod dinosaurs (they mirrored the theropods in a number of respects, such as features of the skull and bipedal locomotion), cladistic analysis has shown them to be more closely related to crocodiles.
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Vinony's link graph records 167 inbound references to Poposauridae, and connects out to Crocodilia, Crocodylomorpha and Poposaurus.
Vinony files it under Late Triassic extinctions, Late Triassic first appearances and Poposauroidea.
Vinony links it to 13 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent taxon
- Poposauroidea
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- Poposaurus gracilis.jpg
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- taxon name
- Poposauridae
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- Poposauroidea
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Poposauridae is a family of large carnivorous archosaurs which lived alongside dinosaurs during the Late Triassic. They were around long. Poposaurids are known from fossil remains from North and South America. While originally believed to be theropod dinosaurs (they mirrored the theropods in a number of respects, such as features of the skull and bipedal locomotion), cladistic analysis has shown them to be more closely related to crocodiles.
An early cladistic analysis of crocodylotarsan archosaurs included Poposaurus, Postosuchus, Teratosaurus, and Bromsgroveia within Poposauridae. However, later studies found Teratosaurus to be a rauisuchid. All recent phylogenetic analyses place Postosuchus either as a rauisuchid or a prestosuchid.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Poposauridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.