Lukas VFN 🇪🇺New, small, ancient #crocodile-like #reptile described in Brazil https://phys.org/news/2024-06-small-ancient-crocodile-reptile-brazil.html
A new small-sized predatory #pseudosuchian #archosaur from the Middle-Late Triassic https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-63313-3
"Prior to the dominance of the #dinosaurs, #pseudosuchians were a common form of quadruped reptile during the #Triassic (252—201 million years ago), with some species among the largest #carnivores of the time. Smaller pseudosuchians known as #gracilisuchids lived alongside these apex predators"
New, small, ancient crocodile-like reptile described in Brazil
The discovery of a new, ancient, predatory reptile dubbed Parvosuchus aurelioi—part of a group of crocodile-like reptiles called pseudosuchians—in Brazil is described in a paper in Scientific Reports. The specimen, which dates to approximately 237 million years ago, during the Middle-Late Triassic, is the first small predatory reptile of its kind to be found in this country.
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