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Angelosaurus — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {Angelosaurus — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelosaurus},
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  year = {2026}
}

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Angelosaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous caseid synapsids that lived during the late Lower Permian (Kungurian) and early Middle Permian (Roadian) in what is now Texas and Oklahoma. Like other herbivorous caseids, it had a small head, large barrel-shaped body, long tail, and massive limbs. Angelosaurus differs from other caseids by the extreme massiveness of its bones, particularly those of the limbs, which show a strong development of ridges, processes, and rugosities for the attachment of muscles and tendons. Relative to its body size, the limbs of Angelosaurus were shorter and wider than those of other caseids. The ungual phalanges looked more like hooves than claws. The few known cranial elements show that the skull was short and more robust than that of the other representatives of the group. Angelosaurus is also distinguished by its bulbous teeth with shorter and wider crowns than those of other caseids. Their morphology and the high rate of wear they exhibit suggests a diet quite different from that of other large herbivorous caseids, and must have been based on particularly tough plants. A study published in 2022 suggests that the genus may be paraphyletic, with Angelosaurus possibly only represented by its type species A. dolani.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Angelosaurus» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelosaurus
Wikidata Q1014429: «genus of tetrapods» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1014429
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelosaurus?action=history).
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