Euparkeria?(; meaning Parker's good animal, named in honor of?) is an???of??from the??of?. It was a small reptile that was close to the ancestry of?, the group that includes?,?, and modern birds and crocodilians.
Euparkeria?had hind limbs that were slightly longer than its forelimbs, which has been taken as evidence that it may have been able to rear up on its hind legs as a?facultative biped. Although?Euparkeria?is close to the ancestry of fully bipedal archosaurs such as early dinosaurs, it probably developed bipedalism independently.?Euparkeria?was not as well adapted to bipedal locomotion as dinosaurs and its normal movement was probably more analogous to a?crocodilian?high walk.
Clean, crisp fossil cast skull of the early Archosaur, Euparkeria. Final photo is a stock image from internet to give a fleshed out image of the creature.
