represents a key piece in understanding the evolutionary origins of the lineage that would eventually lead to mammals

as well as protuberances that gave it a robust and distinctive appearance within the group

Formally described in 2001 by Sampson

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

Euparkeria capensis Scale:1:10 represents a key piece inEuparkeria 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