Tanystropheus still conspicuous—an osteological redescription of the first tanystropheid
Archosauromorphs were the dominant clade of terrestrial vertebrates during the Mesozoic. Extant birds and crocodilians represent only a small remnant of the diversity of this lineage preserved within the fossil record. Especially in the Triassic, following the end-Permian mass extinction, archosauromorphs rapidly diver...