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Crurotarsi, the Glossary

Crurotarsi is a clade of archosauriform reptiles that includes crocodilians and stem-crocodilians and possibly bird-line archosaurs too if the extinct, crocodile-like phytosaurs are more distantly related to crocodiles than traditionally thought.^[1]

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Archosauriforms
Extant Early Triassic first appearances
Taxa named by Paul Sereno
Tetrapod unranked clades
Triassic reptiles

Aetosaur

Aetosaurs are heavily armored reptiles belonging to the extinct order Aetosauria (from Greek, ἀετός (aetos, "eagle") and σαυρος (sauros, "lizard")).

See Crurotarsi and Aetosaur

Archosaur

Archosauria or archosaurs is a clade of diapsid sauropsid tetrapods, with birds and crocodilians being the only extant representatives. Crurotarsi and archosaur are extant Early Triassic first appearances.

See Crurotarsi and Archosaur

Archosauriformes

Archosauriformes (Greek for 'ruling lizards', and Latin for 'form') is a clade of diapsid reptiles encompassing archosaurs and some of their close relatives. Crurotarsi and Archosauriformes are archosauriforms.

See Crurotarsi and Archosauriformes

Arganasuchus

Arganasuchus is an extinct genus of "rauisuchian" (loricatan) archosaur.

See Crurotarsi and Arganasuchus

Arizonasaurus

Arizonasaurus was a ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic (243 million years ago).

See Crurotarsi and Arizonasaurus

Avemetatarsalia (meaning "bird metatarsals") is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all archosaurs more closely related to birds than to crocodilians.

See Crurotarsi and Avemetatarsalia

Basal (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.

See Crurotarsi and Basal (phylogenetics)

Bathyotica

Bathyotica is a clade of crurotarsan archosaurs that includes the superorder Crocodylomorpha and its sister taxon Erpetosuchus, a small Triassic suchian.

See Crurotarsi and Bathyotica

Batrachotomus

Batrachotomus is a genus of prehistoric archosaur.

See Crurotarsi and Batrachotomus

Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

See Crurotarsi and Bird

Bromsgroveia

Bromsgroveia is an extinct genus of predatory ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic Bromsgrove Sandstone of England.

See Crurotarsi and Bromsgroveia

Calcaneus

In humans and many other primates, the calcaneus (from the Latin calcaneus or calcaneum, meaning heel;: calcanei or calcanea) or heel bone is a bone of the tarsus of the foot which constitutes the heel.

See Crurotarsi and Calcaneus

Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

See Crurotarsi and Cladogram

Condyle

A condyle (condylus, from kondylos; κόνδυλος knuckle) is the round prominence at the end of a bone, most often part of a joint – an articulation with another bone.

See Crurotarsi and Condyle

Crocodile

Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

See Crurotarsi and Crocodile

Crocodilia

Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both) is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles known as crocodilians.

See Crurotarsi and Crocodilia

Crocodylomorpha

Crocodylomorpha is a group of pseudosuchian archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives.

See Crurotarsi and Crocodylomorpha

Crown group

In phylogenetics, the crown group or crown assemblage is a collection of species composed of the living representatives of the collection, the most recent common ancestor of the collection, and all descendants of the most recent common ancestor.

See Crurotarsi and Crown group

Crurotarsal

A crurotarsal joint is one that's situated between the bones of crus, i.e. shin (tibia and fibula) and the proximal tarsal bones, i.e. astragalus and calcaneum.

See Crurotarsi and Crurotarsal

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

See Crurotarsi and Dinosaur

Early Triassic

The Early Triassic is the first of three epochs of the Triassic Period of the geologic timescale.

See Crurotarsi and Early Triassic

Effigia

Effigia was an extinct genus of shuvosaurid known from the Late Triassic of New Mexico, south-western USA.

See Crurotarsi and Effigia

Erpetosuchus

Erpetosuchus is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian from the Late Triassic.

See Crurotarsi and Erpetosuchus

Erythrosuchidae

Erythrosuchidae (meaning "red crocodiles" in Greek) are a family of large basal archosauriform carnivores that lived from the later Early Triassic (Olenekian) to the early Middle Triassic (Anisian).

See Crurotarsi and Erythrosuchidae

Erythrosuchus

Erythrosuchus (from ἐρυθρός, 'red' and σοῦχος, 'crocodile') is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptiles from the early Triassic of South Africa.

See Crurotarsi and Erythrosuchus

Euparkeria

Euparkeria (meaning "Parker's good animal", named in honor of W. K. Parker) is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptile from the Triassic of South Africa. Crurotarsi and Euparkeria are archosauriforms.

See Crurotarsi and Euparkeria

Eusuchia

Eusuchia is a clade of neosuchian crocodylomorphs that first appeared in the Early Cretaceous, which includes modern crocodilians.

See Crurotarsi and Eusuchia

Fasolasuchus

Fasolasuchus is an extinct genus of loricatan.

See Crurotarsi and Fasolasuchus

Fibula

The fibula (fibulae or fibulas) or calf bone is a leg bone on the lateral side of the tibia, to which it is connected above and below.

See Crurotarsi and Fibula

Gracilisuchus

Gracilisuchus (meaning "slender crocodile") is an extinct genus of tiny pseudosuchian (a group which includes the ancestors of crocodilians) from the Late Triassic of Argentina.

See Crurotarsi and Gracilisuchus

Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

See Crurotarsi and Greek language

Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

See Crurotarsi and Holocene

Human leg

The leg is the entire lower limb of the human body, including the foot, thigh or sometimes even the hip or buttock region.

See Crurotarsi and Human leg

Lotosaurus

Lotosaurus is an extinct genus of sail-backed poposauroid known from Hunan Province of central China.

See Crurotarsi and Lotosaurus

Nile crocodile

The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries.

See Crurotarsi and Nile crocodile

Omosaurus

Omosaurus is a dubious genus of extinct crurotarsan reptile, possibly a phytosaur, from the Late Triassic (Carnian) of North Carolina.

See Crurotarsi and Omosaurus

Ornithosuchidae

Ornithosuchidae is an extinct family of pseudosuchian archosaurs (distant relatives of modern crocodilians) from the Triassic period.

See Crurotarsi and Ornithosuchidae

Ornithosuchus

Ornithosuchus (from ornis, ornithos, "bird" and souchos, "crocodile") is an extinct genus of pseudosuchians from the Late Triassic (Carnian) Lossiemouth Sandstone of Scotland.

See Crurotarsi and Ornithosuchus

Paracrocodylomorpha

Paracrocodylomorpha is a clade of pseudosuchian archosaurs. Crurotarsi and Paracrocodylomorpha are extant Early Triassic first appearances.

See Crurotarsi and Paracrocodylomorpha

Paraphyly

Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages.

See Crurotarsi and Paraphyly

Paul Sereno

Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago who has discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents, including at sites in Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger.

See Crurotarsi and Paul Sereno

Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

See Crurotarsi and Phylogenetics

Phytosaur

Phytosaurs (Φυτόσαυροι in greek, meaning 'plant lizard') are an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic Late Triassic archosauriform reptiles.

See Crurotarsi and Phytosaur

Poposauroidea

Poposauroidea is a clade of advanced pseudosuchians.

See Crurotarsi and Poposauroidea

Poposaurus

Poposaurus is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian archosaur from the Late Triassic of the southwestern United States.

See Crurotarsi and Poposaurus

Postosuchus

Postosuchus, meaning "Crocodile from Post", is an extinct genus of rauisuchid reptiles comprising two species, P. kirkpatricki and P. alisonae, that lived in what is now North America during the Late Triassic.

See Crurotarsi and Postosuchus

Prestosuchidae

Prestosuchidae (in its widest usage) is a polyphyletic grouping of carnivorous archosaurs that lived during the Triassic.

See Crurotarsi and Prestosuchidae

Prestosuchus

Prestosuchus (meaning "Prestes crocodile") is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian in the group Loricata, which also includes Saurosuchus and Postosuchus.

See Crurotarsi and Prestosuchus

Proterochampsia

Proterochampsia is a clade of early archosauriform reptiles from the Triassic period.

See Crurotarsi and Proterochampsia

Proterochampsidae

Proterochampsidae is a family of proterochampsian archosauriforms.

See Crurotarsi and Proterochampsidae

Proterosuchidae

Proterosuchidae is an early family of basal archosauriforms whose fossils are known from the Late Permian and the Early Triassic.

See Crurotarsi and Proterosuchidae

Protome batalaria

Protome is an extinct genus of parasuchid phytosaur from the Late Triassic of Arizona, represented by a single species, Protome batalaria.

See Crurotarsi and Protome batalaria

Pseudosuchia

Pseudosuchia (from ψεύδος (pseudos), "false" and σούχος (souchos), "crocodile") is one of two major divisions of Archosauria, including living crocodilians and all archosaurs more closely related to crocodilians than to birds. Crurotarsi and Pseudosuchia are extant Early Triassic first appearances.

See Crurotarsi and Pseudosuchia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crurotarsi

Also known as Crurotarsan, Crurotarsans, Crurotarsians.

, Proterochampsidae, Proterosuchidae, Protome batalaria, Pseudosuchia, Pterosaur, Qianosuchus, Rauisuchia, Rauisuchidae, Rauisuchus, Reuters, Revueltosaurus, Rutiodon, Saurosuchus, Science (journal), Shuvosauridae, Shuvosaurus, Sillosuchus, Stagonosuchus, Suchia, Tarsus (skeleton), Teratosaurus, Ticinosuchus, Tikisuchus, Vancleavea, Yarasuchus.

Crurotarsi, the Glossary

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See also

Archosauriforms

Extant Early Triassic first appearances

Taxa named by Paul Sereno

Tetrapod unranked clades

Triassic reptiles

References