M. preonensis Calzavara, Muscio & Wild 1981 (type)
M. endennae Renesto et al. 2010[1]
Megalancosaurus is a genus of extinct reptile from the Late Triassic Dolomia di Forni Formation and Zorzino Limestone of northern Italy, and one of the best known drepanosaurids. The type species is M. preonensis; a translation of the animal's scientific name would be "long armed reptile from the Preone Valley."[2]
^Silvio Renesto; Justin A. Spielmann; Spencer G. Lucas & Giorgio Tarditi Spagnoli (2010). "The taxonomy and paleobiology of the Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian: Adamanian-Apachean) drepanosaurs (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha: Drepanosauromorpha)". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 46: 1–81.
^Calzavara M., Muscio G. & Wild R. (1980). "Megalancosaurus preonensis, n. g., n. sp., a new reptile from the Norian of Friuli". Gortania. 2: 49–63.
directed anteriorly, suggesting that Megalancosaurus had good binocular vision. It has been proposed that Megalancosaurus was capable of gliding, though while...
remaining three, an adaptation for grasping branches. Some individuals of Megalancosaurus (possibly exclusive to either males or females) had a primate-like...
Drepanosaurus was likely similar to other drepanosaurs, such as Megalancosaurus. Megalancosaurus' skull was approximately the same size as its enlarged claws...
hypothesized by its discoverers. Hypuronector was related to the arboreal Megalancosaurus. It was a small animal, estimated to be only 12 cm (4.7 in) long in...
Pg N Skull of Orovenator, the earliest known neodiapsid Skeleton of Megalancosaurus, a drepanosaur Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom:...
The resemblance is especially striking in some drepanosaurs such as Megalancosaurus which possess long, pointed snouts and expanded, rounded craniums....
Poland" (PDF). Palaeontologia Polonica. 65: 203–234. Renesto, S (1994). "Megalancosaurus, a possibly arboreal archosauromorph (Reptilia) from the Upper Triassic...
membranes on the forelimbs only and was fashioned on the model of Megalancosaurus. The term Proavis was used again in 1999, when Joseph Garner, Graham...
reported from the formation: Other reptiles Langobardisaurus tonelloi Megalancosaurus preonensis ?Drepanosaurus unguicaudatus Fish Pseudodalatias barnstonensis...
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