Tag Archive for 'Archosauriformes'

Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis on the Panthalassan Ocean coast. Image credit: Jorge Gonzalez.

Study: Triassic Reptiles Were Able to Migrate across Tropical Areas Deemed Inhospitable to Life

Jun 11, 2025 by News Staff

Using a novel method of geographical analysis, paleontologists inferred how archosauromorphs dispersed following one of the most impactful climate events...

Artistic representation of a Middle-Late Triassic landscape of southern Brazil depicting two individuals of the proterochampsid archosauriform Retymaijychampsa beckerorum. Image credit: Caio Fantini.

New Species of Triassic Archosauriform Discovered in Brazil

Mar 3, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of proterochampsid archosauriform has been identified from an almost complete fossilized hindlimb found in southern Brazil. Artistic...

Life reconstruction of Samsarasuchus pamelae. Image credit: Gabriel Lio.

New Species of Triassic Crocodile-Like Reptile Identified in India

Oct 30, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in India have identified a new genus and species of proterosuchid reptile from both new and historically collected specimens. Life reconstruction...

Life reconstruction of Euparkeria capensis, a species of archosauriform reptile from the Triassic of South Africa. Image credit: Nobu Tamura, http://spinops.blogspot.com.

Triassic Archosaur Had Armored Plates above Its Backbone

Jul 26, 2023 by News Staff

Mambachiton fiandohana lived in what is now Madagascar during the Middle-Late Triassic transition, around 235 million years ago — the time of the...

Life reconstruction of Stenoscelida aurantiacus. Image credit: Matheus Fernandes / Universidade Federal de Santa Maria.

New Species of Triassic Crocodile-Like Reptile Identified in Brazil

Nov 9, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered a new fossil reptile that lived during the Late Triassic epoch in southern Brazil. Life reconstruction of Stenoscelida...

Life appearance of the non-archosaurian archosauriform, the most suitable producer of Isochirotherium gardettensis. Image credit: Fabio Manucci.

250-Million-Year-Old Archosauriform Footprints Found in Italy

Jan 19, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Italy have discovered an assemblage of fossil footprints left by an Early Triassic archosauriform. Life appearance of the non-archosaurian...

Life restoration of Kongonaphon kely. Image credit: Alex Boersma.

Tiny Dinosaur Relative Roamed Triassic Madagascar

Jul 7, 2020 by News Staff

A new genus and species of ornithodiran — an early relative of dinosaurs and pterosaurs — that lived around 237 million years ago (Triassic...

Dr. Stocker and co-authors describe Triopticus primus, a bizarre Late Triassic animal, whose skull structure is converged on by distantly related dome-headed pachycephalosaurs. The unique body plans observed in Triopticus primus and other archosaurs at the ‘dawn of the age of dinosaurs’ re-evolved in dinosaurs and crocodylians after the end-Triassic mass extinction. Image credit: Michelle R. Stocker et al.

Triopticus primus: Triassic Reptile Had ‘Third Eye’ and Thick, Domed Skull

Sep 25, 2016 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described a completely unexpected new species of reptile that lived 230 million years ago (Triassic period). Dr. Stocker and co-authors...

An artist’s rendition of Teyujagua paradoxa. Image credit: Voltaire Neto.

Ancient Crocodile-Like Reptile Unearthed in Brazil: Teyujagua paradoxa

Mar 11, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossil remains of a previously unknown species of reptile that lived about 250 million years ago (Triassic period) have been found in the Brazilian state...