occupying a niche as a specialized freshwater hunter following the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous

con una longitud estimada de unos 3 metros

5 times larger than that of the largest modern giant squids

The neck was long and flexible

Euparkeria capensis Scale:1:10 occupying a niche as aEuparkeria capensis is a basal archosauriform from the Middle Triassic, dated approximately 245 million years ago, whose fossil remains have been found mainly in the Cynognathus Formation, in South Africa. Originally described by Robert Broom in 1913, this small reptile holds a fundamental position in the study of early archosaur evolution, as it exhibits a combination of anatomical characteristics considered transitional between more primitive