Euparkeria

Information about Euparkeria

Euparkeria
Fossil range: Early Triassic

Extinct (fossil)

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Infraclass:	Archosauromorpha
(unranked)	Archosauriformes
Family:	Euparkeriidae
Genus:	*Euparkeria*

Binomial name

Euparkeria capensis
Broom, 1913a

Euparkeria (/juˈpɑː(r)k.ə.riː.ə/), named in honor of W.K. Parker, was a small African reptile of the early Triassic period between 245-234 million years ago, close to the ancestry of the archosaurs. The first fossils were found in Souht Africa in 1913, but better specimens were found in 1924. The matter is further confused because there is a gap of 10 million years before Euparkeria and the first fossilized dinosuars, such as Coelophysis. It was 22" long and weighed 20 lbs. It was a carnivore and was not a dinosaur. Euparkeria had relatively long hind legs, and may have been semi-bipedal, able to move using only its hind legs when running quickly (Caroll, 1988). This tendency towards bipedal locomotion makes Euparkeria one of the earliest reptiles to walk on two legs, a feature that would be retained in some dinosaurs and early crocodilians.

Euparkeria as depicted in Walking With Monsters.

Popular culture

Euparkeria was featured in the BBC television program Walking With Monsters.

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The Triassic is a geologic period that extends from about 251 to 199 Ma (million years ago). As the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic follows the Permian and is followed by the Jurassic. Both the start and end of the Triassic are marked by major extinction events.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Sauropsida*
Goodrich, 1916

Subclasses

Anapsida
Diapsida

Synonyms

Reptilia Laurenti, 1768

Reptiles are tetrapods and amniotes, animals whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane, and members of the class
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Archosauromorpha
von Huene, 1946

Orders

See text
Archosauromorpha (Greek for "ruling lizard forms") is an Infraclass of diapsid reptiles that first appeared during the late Permian and became more common during the Triassic.
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'Archosauriformes
Gauthier, 1986

Groups

Proterosuchidae
    Erythrosuchidae
        Euparkeriidae
            Archosauria

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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532 km² (11,668,545 sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area.
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Archosauria
Cope, 1869

Clades

Crurotarsi
Aetosauria
Crocodilia (crocodiles)
Phytosauria

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Coelophysis
Cope, 1889

Species

C. bauri (Cope, 1887) (type)

Synonyms

Rioarribasaurus Hunt & Lucas, 1991
?Megapnosaurus Ivie, Slipinski, & Wegrzynowicz, 2001
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carnivore (IPA: /ˈkɑrnɪvɔər/), meaning 'meat eater' (Latin carne meaning 'flesh' and vorare
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Dinosauria *
Owen, 1842

Orders & Suborders

Ornithischia
Cerapoda
Thyreophora
Saurischia

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Crurotarsi
Sereno & Arcucci, 1990

Orders

Phytosauria
Aetosauria
Rauisuchia*
Crocodilia

The Crurotarsi ("cross-ankles") are a group of archosaurs created as a node-based clade by Paul Sereno in 1991 to supplant the old term
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Type Broadcast radio and television
Country United Kingdom
Availability National
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Founder John Reith
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Walking with Monsters (also distributed as Before the Dinosaurs: Walking With Monsters) is a three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic, bringing to life extinct arthropods, fish, amphibians, synapsids, and reptiles.
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