fish or squid without disturbing its prey due to its large body size. Upon selecting a suitable prey item, it would have dashed forward by propelling itself along the seabed or through the water, with both hind limbs pushing off at the same time. This style of swimming is most common in amphibious creatures such as frogs, and likewise Tanystropheus would also have been capable of walking around on land. Semiaquatic habits were also supported in the 2020 study which named Tanystropheus hydroides based on digitally reconstructed skulls. This study noted that both T. hydroides and T. longobardicus had large undivided nares positioned at the upper edge of the snout, a location consistent with semiaquatic habits in other animals. The body would have had a poor hydrodynamic profile and the limbs had only limited adaptions to swimming, suggesting that Tanystropheus lived in shallow coastal areas or even in freshwater. References Bibliography George Olshevsky expands on the history of "P." exogyrarum, on the Dinosaur Mailing List Huene, 1902. "Übersicht über die Reptilien der Trias" [Review of the Reptilia of the Triassic]. Geologische und Paläontologische Abhandlungen. 6, 1-84. Fritsch, 1905. "Synopsis der Saurier der böhm. Kreideformation" [Synopsis of the saurians of the Bohemian Cretaceous formation]. Sitzungsberichte der königlich-böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, II Classe. 1905(8), 1-7. External links Tanystropheids Prehistoric reptile genera Olenekian genus first appearances Anisian genera Ladinian genera Carnian genus extinctions Triassic reptiles of Europe Triassic Italy Fossils of Italy Triassic Switzerland Fossils of Switzerland Fossil taxa described in 1852 Taxa named by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer