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Dinocephalosaurus (meaning "terrible-headed reptile") is a genus of long necked, aquatic protorosaur that inhabited the Triassic seas of China. The genus contains the type and only known species, D. orientalis , which was named by Chun Li in 2003.
Trachelosauridae [1] (also known as Dinocephalosauridae) [2] is an extinct clade of archosauromorph reptiles that lived throughout the Triassic period. Like their close relatives the tanystropheids, they were "protorosaur"-grade archosauromorphs characterized by their long necks.
Protorosauria is an extinct, likely paraphyletic group of basal archosauromorph reptiles from the latest Middle Permian (Capitanian stage) to the end of the Late Triassic (Rhaetian stage) of Asia, Europe and North America.
Newly-discovered fossils have allowed scientists to reveal a 240-million-year-old “dragon” in its entirety for the first ever time, National Museums Scotland (NMS) said in a statement on Friday.
"Dinocephalosaurus orientalis Li, 2003: A remarkable marine archosauromorph from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh : 1–33.
English: Size comparison of members of the Trachelosauridae (Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, "Protanystropheus (Tanystropheus) antiquus", Trachelosaurus fischeri, and Pectodens zhenyuensis) with an adult human male (~1.8 m) for reference.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 18:10, 14 January 2023: 1,618 × 782 (1.79 MB): NGPezz: Uploaded a work by Stephan N.F. Spiekman , Nicholas C. Fraser, Torsten M. Scheyer from A new phylogenetic hypothesis of Tanystropheidae (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha) and other “protorosaurs”, and its implications for the early evolution of stem archosaurs.
Redescription of the skeletal anatomy of Dinocephalosaurus orientalis is published by Spiekman et al. (2024), who interpret D. orientalis as adapted to more open waters than Tanystropheus hydroides, and consider the similarities between Dinocephalosaurus and Tanystropheus to be largely convergent. [153]