including early humans

and the skull structure indicates powerful masticatory musculature that enhanced its feeding efficiency

with an estimated age of around 165 million years

These plates and spines were fused to the underlying bones

capable of venturing into waters up to approximately two meters deep to capture fish

Tanystropheus longobardicus Silesaurus including early humansDuring the Middle Triassic, the coastal ecosystems of the supercontinent Pangaea hosted a diverse and, in many cases, morphologically unusual reptilian fauna. Prominent among these forms is Tanystropheus longobardicus , a basal archosauromorph whose unique anatomy has been the subject of extensive paleobiological and functional debate. This reptile is mainly characterized by an extremely elongated neck composed of disproportionately long cervical