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    length of 6 meters (20 ft), making Tanystropheus the longest non-archosauriform archosauromorph as well. Tanystropheus is the namesake of the family Tanystropheidae...
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    juvenile Tanystropheus. The skull of Dinocephalosaurus was low and narrow, with a long premaxilla and maxilla compared to those of Tanystropheus. Both the...
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    Friedrich von Huene under the name Tanystropheus antiquus (some authors still prefer to include this species within Tanystropheus). Sennikov (2011) referred to...
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    which elevated their neck size to extremes, with the largest genus Tanystropheus having a neck longer than its body. The protorosaur family Sharovipterygidae...
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    tanystropheids were small lizard-like animals, other tanystropheids such as Tanystropheus were large animals that had necks that were several meters long, longer...
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    Proterosuchus) rather than Protorosaurus or tanystropheids (specifically Tanystropheus). This group roughly corresponds to Laurin's definition of Archosauromorpha...
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    notable example is Tanystropheus, a genus of archosauromorph reptiles from the Middle Triassic period. The species Tanystropheus hydroides could reach...
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    clade Tanysauria includes all taxa that are more closely related to Tanystropheus longobardicus, Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, and Trachelosaurus fischeri...
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  • probably belonged to the genus Tanystropheus (thought to be a theropod at the time), and named a new species for it, Tanystropheus posthumus. The vertebra was...
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    stage of the Late Triassic and it was related to Tanystropheus. Raibliania is distinct from Tanystropheus due to some distinct features of the cervical vertebrae...
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    "protorosaur" archosauromorphs and the sister taxon to the clade containing Tanystropheus, Langobardisaurus and Macrocnemus, or in unresolved polytomy with Lepidosauromorpha...
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    vertebrae in the neck alone, far more than the 13 neck vertebrae of Tanystropheus. Trachelosaurids are known from Europe (Poland, Germany, Austria, Netherlands)...
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  • Gorgosaurus, Iguanodon, Monoclonius, Plateosaurus, Struthiomimus, Tanystropheus, Teratosaurus, Trachodon; under Dinosaur, Aquatic: Archelon, Dinichthys...
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    inclusive clade containing taxa such as Protorosaurus, Macrocnemus, and Tanystropheus. Analyses, such as Dilkes (1998), Sues (2003), Modesto & Sues (2004)...
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  • Derasmosaurus? Ankylosphenodon Dinocephalosaurus: Middle Triassic Tanystropheus: Middle Triassic Placodonts: Triassic Cyamodus Henodus Palatodonta Paraplacodus...
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  • reptiles. Quetzalcoatlus Parasaurolophus Elasmosaurus Liopleurodon Tanystropheus Placochelys Rhomaleosaurus Ammonites Leedsichthys Mosasaurus Ichthyornis...
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    of Chirostenotes "Macroscelosaurus" – nomen nudum; junior synonym of Tanystropheus Macrurosaurus "Madsenius" – nomen nudum; Allosaurus Magnamanus Magnapaulia...
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  • vertebrae are proportionally shorter than those of the closely related Tanystropheus. In 2017, Li, Rieppel & Fraser described the fossilized embryo of an...
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  • of the Tanystropheidae, and is considered to be a close relative of Tanystropheus and Macrocnemus, which are also known from Triassic deposits of Italy...
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    marine crocodylomorphs that flourished during the Jurassic period. Tanystropheus and related aquatic archosauromorphs that lived during the Triassic...
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    dakotensis) is estimated to have had a total length of around 5 m (16 ft). Tanystropheus, the largest of all tanystropheids, reached up to 5 m (16 ft) in length...
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  • Stephan; Scheyer, Torsten (2019), "A taxonomic revision of the genus Tanystropheus (Archosauromorpha, Tanystropheidae)", Palaeontologia Electronica, doi:10...
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    Fuyuansaurus? Gracilicollum? Gwyneddosaurus Langobardisaurus Luxisaurus Macrocnemus Raibliania Sclerostropheus? Tanystropheus Tanytrachelos Sharovipterygidae?...
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    tarsal elements with well-ossified proximal and distal ends. Unlike in Tanystropheus, digit V of the proximal phalanx of Macrocnemus is shorter than the...
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  • King Kong screenplay refers to the dinosaur only as a "Meat Eater". Tanystropheus – A highly stylized, serpentine aquatic reptile with a long neck and...
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    thus T. antiquus. Thecodontosaurus latespinatus von Huene, 1907-08 = Tanystropheus Thecodontosaurus primus von Huene, 1907-1908 = indeterminate archosauromorph...
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    Fuyuansaurus? Gracilicollum? Gwyneddosaurus Langobardisaurus Luxisaurus Macrocnemus Raibliania Sclerostropheus? Tanystropheus Tanytrachelos Sharovipterygidae?...
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  • Fuyuansaurus? Gracilicollum? Gwyneddosaurus Langobardisaurus Luxisaurus Macrocnemus Raibliania Sclerostropheus? Tanystropheus Tanytrachelos Sharovipterygidae?...
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    same year Cope changed his mind and transferred it to the genus Tanystropheus. Tanystropheus turned out to be a long-necked reptile not regarded by scientists...
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  • Fuyuansaurus? Gracilicollum? Gwyneddosaurus Langobardisaurus Luxisaurus Macrocnemus Raibliania Sclerostropheus? Tanystropheus Tanytrachelos Sharovipterygidae?...
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