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@johnrhutchinson and his team used this exact mount from Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart for the 3D reconstruction of Batrachotomus. Our study also compared our simulations to fossil trackways of Chirotheriids, and was the first (that we know of) to identify gait transitions in an ancient pseudosuchian. It was a lot of fun, and I wish we still had "Rauisuchians" like Batrachotomus around today!

Pasha van Bijlert  
#FossilFriday: Batrachotomus, a pseudosuchian from ~240 million years ago. Although these animals were in the same clade as crocodilians, Batrachot...
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