GnathostomataAphanosauria

Teleocrater rhadinus

Teleocrater rhadinus skeletal reconstruction, left lateral view, length ~1.81 m.
Scale bar = 25 centimeters
Taxon
Teleocrater rhadinus Nesbitt et al., 2017
Reconstructed length
~1.8 m (6 feet)
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2016, revised 2018
Clade
  1. Gnathostomata
  2. Tetrapoda
  3. Amniota
  4. Sauropsida
  5. Archosauromorpha
  6. Archosauria
  7. Avemetatarsalia
  8. Aphanosauria

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A Middle Triassic aphanosaur and one of the earliest-diverging bird-line archosaurs (an avemetatarsalian, close to dinosaur origins but not itself a dinosaur). Teleocrater was a lightly built quadruped that still retained a crocodylian-style ankle, showing that early dinosaur relatives weren’t all small bipeds.

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