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- noun Plural form of
phytosaur .
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Examples
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Some called phytosaurs looked and lived a lot like today's crocodiles, staying submerged in rivers or lakes until attacking a victim.
IOL: News 2008
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I stayed in (too weary for eyes on me, and the autumn sky) and read "Superiority, Competition, and Opportunism in the Evolutionary Radiation of Dinosaurs" (Science, 12 September 2008), which examines the question of just how dinosaurs managed to come out of the Triassic so much better off than their crurotarsan contemporaries (non-dinosaurian archosaurs, including phytosaurs, aetosaurs, 'rauisuchians,' etc.).
"Hallways...always..." acephalemagic 2008
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The taxonomic breadth of fossil taxa at the Hayden Quarry is amazing---in addition to several species of dinosaur, there are also numerous "pre-dinosaurs" close ancestors of dinosaurs, phytosaurs, "rauisuchians", aetosaurs, amphibians, small reptiles 1, and probably more.
Field Update Sarah Werning 2008
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The taxonomic breadth of fossil taxa at the Hayden Quarry is amazing---in addition to several species of dinosaur, there are also numerous "pre-dinosaurs" close ancestors of dinosaurs, phytosaurs, "rauisuchians", aetosaurs, amphibians, small reptiles 1, and probably more.
Archive 2008-05-01 Sarah Werning 2008
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Boomerang-headed diplocauls kept their young close to shore for protection while on the far side of the little island juvenile black caimans and phytosaurs slumbered on, indifferent to their bipedal mammalian visitors.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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Boomerang-headed diplocauls kept their young close to shore for protection while on the far side of the little island juvenile black caimans and phytosaurs slumbered on, indifferent to their bipedal mammalian visitors.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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But, in the Triassic, crurotarsans were amazingly diverse-from giant carnivorous rauisuchians to long-snouted, flesh eating phytosaurs to herbivorous armored aetosaurs-and they have often been mistaken for dinosaurs in the fossil record, the animals that they probably competed with for the same resources.
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