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Topic: Bolosauridae


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  Glossary E @ Planet Dinosaur
Eudibamus was not a dinosaur, but another, much earlier type of reptile.
Classification: class Reptilia (reptiles), order Eosuchia, suborder Bolosaurida, family Bolosauridae, Genus Eudibamus, species E.
Eudimorphodon (meaning: "true two-form tooth") was a pterosaur with a 2.5 feet (0.75 m) long wingspan, with large eyes, a short neck, many sharp teeth in pointed jaws (for eating fish and insects), and a diamond-shaped flap of skin at the end of the long, pointed tail.
planetdinosaur.com /glossary/e.htm   (4974 words)

  
 Palaeos Vertebrates 200.100 Anapsida: Basal Anapsids
Characters: Caniniform teeth absent; posterior emargination of skull; dorsal expansion of quadratojugal; expanded iliac blade.
Characters: Simple, conical teeth; retention of tabular, large supratemporal and postparietals; some forms with lateral temporal fenestra, but independently derived; lower temporal bar incomplete; stapes relatively small(?), light; impedance-matching ear likely; squamosal and quadratojugal embayed to support tympanum like diapsids (?) but unlike Testudines, which use quadrate; lizard-like?
Introduction: The Procolophonia are a group of early herbivorous reptiles that flourished during the Permian to Triassic periods.
www.palaeos.com /Vertebrates/Units/Unit200/100.html   (677 words)

  
 Many entire galaxies (including our own) could have been fully colonized twice by the end of this period; Earth may be ...
The best fossil currently available seems to be of an animal drowned in a flash flood.
Eudibamus cursoris is of the Bolosauridae family of reptiles.
The likely stride of Eudibamus was similar to that of the modern Jesus Christ lizard of South America, which can run bipedally across water fast enough to avoid sinking.
www.jrmooneyham.com /genes2.html   (13920 words)

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