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Effigia okeeffeae

fossil reptile
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  • phytosaur
    crurotarsan

    …that some forms, such as Effigia okeeffeae, were bipedal. (E. okeeffeae evolved some 80 million years before the first bipedal dinosaurs appeared.) Most crurotarsan lineages died out during the end-Triassic extinction event, and their demise has been attributed to a combination of volcanic eruptions and climatic changes. Furthermore, many

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    …that some forms, such as Effigia okeeffeae, were bipedal. (E. okeeffeae evolved some 80 million years before the first bipedal dinosaurs appeared.) Most crurotarsan lineages died out during the end-Triassic extinction event, and their demise has been attributed to a combination of volcanic eruptions and climatic changes. Furthermore, many

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