Macrocnemus

Macrocnemus; Temporal range: Middle Triassic, 245–228 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Fossil of Macrocnemus bassanii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archosauromorpha
Clade:	†Tanysauria
Family:	†Tanystropheidae
Genus:	†Macrocnemus; Nopcsa, 1931
Species
	† M. basanii Nopsca, 1931 (type); † M. fuyuanensis Li et al., 2007;

Macrocnemus is an extinct genus of archosauromorph reptile from the Middle Triassic of Europe and China.

Description

The name is from the Greek for "long tibia". Two species have been named, the type species M. bassanii and the species M. fuyuanensis.^[1] The reptile was around 20-25 cm long^{[citation needed]}. It may have eaten limulid eggs and hunted in packs^{[citation needed]}.

References

^ Jiang, D.-Y.; Rieppel, O.; Fraser, N.C.; Motani, R.; Haoa, W.-C.; Tintorie, A.; Suna, Y.-L.; Suna, Z.-Y. (2011). "New information on the protorosaurian reptile Macrocnemus fuyuanensis Li et al., 2007, from the Middle/Upper Triassic of Yunnan, China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (6): 1230–1237. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.610853.

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[Jetal11-1] Jiang, D.-Y.; Rieppel, O.; Fraser, N.C.; Motani, R.; Haoa, W.-C.; Tintorie, A.; Suna, Y.-L.; Suna, Z.-Y. (2011). "New information on the protorosaurian reptile Macrocnemus fuyuanensis Li et al., 2007, from the Middle/Upper Triassic of Yunnan, China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (6): 1230–1237. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.610853.

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