Aphanosauria
| Aphanosaurs | |
|---|---|
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| Illustration of †Yarasuchus deccanensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Avemetatarsalia |
| Clade: | †Aphanosauria Nesbitt et al., 2017 |
| Genera | |
Aphanosauria ("hidden lizards") is a newly recognized group of quadrupedal, carnivorous avemetatarsalians. It includes a handful of mostly Triassic animals and is phylogenetically the oldest known avemetatarsalian clade.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Butler, Richard J.; Ezcurra, Martín D.; Barrett, Paul M.; Stocker, Michelle R.; Angielczyk, Kenneth D.; Smith, Roger M. H.; Sidor, Christian A.; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz; Sennikov, Andrey G.; Charig, Alan J. (2017). "The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature22037.
- ↑ Yong, Ed. "The Long-Ignored Reptile Rewriting the Prologue to the Dinosaur Story". The Atlantic. Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
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