Xianglong
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Xianglong is a genus of gliding Cretaceous lizard containing one described species, Xianglong zhaoi. It is known from LPM 000666, a single complete skeleton with skin impressions discovered in the Zhu
Liaoning Palaeontological Museum 20250103 105251
Life restoration in gliding pose
Armandisaurus explorator
Plioplatecarpus primaevus life reconstruction
Mecistotrachelos
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Mecistotrachelos is an extinct genus of gliding reptile from the Late Triassic of Virginia. It is generally interpreted as an archosauromorph, distantly related to crocodylians and dinosaurs. The type
Xianglong
…Xianlong and evolved its gliding apparatus independently. Other analogous fossil reptiles are known from the Triassic period: the kuehneosaurids and Mecistotrachelos, but the Triassic look-alikes lived over 100 million years before Xianglong. Despite the 11-centimetre (4.3 in) "rib-span", the lizard might have been…
VMNH 3649, the holotype specimen of Mecistotrachelos apeoros
A close view of VMNH 3649
Sharovipteryx BW