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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

  • The tiny hands are characteristically crocodyliform-like, the ankle is of the complex crocodile-normal type, the way the femur articulates with the pelvis is not like that of dinosaurs, and there are other crurotarsan features too.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • They established that after the lava flows, the crurotarsan fossil record was 'nearly completely gone'.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ians 2010

  • But the reasons underlying dinosaurs 'survival, diversification and massive size for 160 million years while their crurotarsan foes did not evolve in a similar fashion remains a

    Raw Story 2010

  • But the reasons underlying dinosaurs 'survival, diversification and massive size for 160 million years while their crurotarsan foes did not evolve in a similar fashion remains a

    IOL: News 2010

  • But the reasons underlying dinosaurs 'survival, diversification and massive size for 160 million years while their crurotarsan foes did not evolve in a similar fashion remains a

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • They established that after the lava flows, the crurotarsan fossil record was 'nearly completely gone'.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ians 2010

  • But the reasons underlying dinosaurs 'survival, diversification and massive size for 160 million years while their crurotarsan foes did not evolve in a similar fashion remains a

    IOL: News 2010

  • There was a reasonable amount of non-tetrapod stuff that I won't, of course, be covering, but by the end of the first day we were into crurotarsan archosaurs and that's where I'll begin ... specifically, with Julia Desojo's review of the taxonomy of Brazilian rauisuchians.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2008

  • Of the crurotarsan group, crocodilians are the only living members.

    dailyindia.com News Feed 2008

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