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Record 1 2012-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Reptiles and Amphibians
  • Paleontology
DEF

An order of primitive archosaurs that includes the Proterosuchia, Ornithosuchia, Phytosauria, and possibly the Aetosauria ...

OBS

... probably ancestral to the dinosaurs, they arose in the upper Permian, flourishing and diversifying in the Triassic (when they may have become warm-blooded).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Reptiles et amphibiens
  • Paléontologie
DEF

Ordre de reptiles fossiles archosauriens (Archosauria) carnivores du permien et du trias ressemblant à des crocodiles, en plus petit.

Spanish

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