Crurotarsi facts for kids

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Crurotarsans
Temporal range:
Lower Triassic – present
250 mya – 0
Life restoration of Protome batalaria
Life restoration of Ornithosuchus woodwardi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Subgroups

The Crurotarsi are one of the two main groups of archosaurs. It includes the archosaurs (living today are crocodiles and birds). It also includes all their ancestors and relatives right back to the early Triassic period, including the Pseudosuchia.

Crurotarsi:

Both main groups of Archosaurs are defined by features of their ankle joints.

Images for kids

  • Erythrosuchus afr12DB

    Erythrosuchus

  • Euparkeria BW flipped

    Euparkeria

  • Meyers grosses Konversations-Lexikon - ein Nachschlagewerk des allgemeinen Wissens (1908) (Antwerpener Breiftaube)

    Lexikon

  • Desmatosuchus spurensis flipped

    Desmatosuchus spurensis

  • Ornithosuchus BW white background

    Ornithosuchus

  • Arizonasaurus BW white background

    Arizonasaurus

  • Shuvosaurus BW flipped

    Shuvosaurus

  • Chanaresuchus

    Chanaresuchus

  • Smilosuchus adamanensis flipped

    Smilosuchus adamanensis

  • Gracilisuchus BW white background

    Gracilisuchus

  • Postosuchus kirkpatricki flipped

    Postosuchus

  • Lotosaurus BW white background

    Lotosaurus

  • Effigia BW white background

    Effigia


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