Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Tanks of the triassic: New aetosaur identified https://phys.org/news/2024-03-tanks-triassic-crocodile-ancestor.html
#Garzapelta muelleri, a new #aetosaur from the Late #Triassic middle Cooper Canyon Formation, USA, and its implications on our understanding of the morphological disparity of the aetosaurian dorsal carapace https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25379
"#aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern #crocodiles, ruled the world before #dinosaurs did. They came in a variety of shapes and sizes before going extinct around 200 million years ago."
Tanks of the triassic: New crocodile ancestor identified
Dinosaurs get all the glory. But aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern crocodiles, ruled the world before dinosaurs did. These tanks of the Triassic came in a variety of shapes and sizes before going extinct around 200 million years ago. Today, their fossils are found on every continent except Antarctica and Australia.
