Researchers fill critical gap in fossil record of Chinese phytosaurs
Monday, April 10, 2017 - 08:32
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The skeleton of a small, short-snouted reptile found in China was recently identified as the oldest known member of the phytosaurs -- an extinct group of large, semi-aquatic reptiles that superficially resembled the distantly-related crocodylians and lived during the Triassic Period, approximately 250 million years ago to 200 million years ago.