Teleocrater, a (sort of) new early near-ornithodiran

[Halichoeres]

A good write-up in Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaenamontanari/2017/04/12/the-oldest-known-relative-of-dinosaurs-has-been-unearthed-in-tanzania/#19c74bce73b1

And the paper (paywall):
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature22037.html

It's an old name, but had never been officially published before now. It's relatively advanced anatomically, showing that some ornithodiran traits were already present at the base of Avemetatarsalia.

[Chad]

Palaeocast has a podcast about this that just popped up today. Entertainment for my commute today is locked in.

[ZoPteryx]

Very interesting critter.  Hopefully we'll find more of these peculiar basal avemetatarsalians, maybe they'll have something to say about pterosaur origins.

[Megalosaurus]

Will be fantastic to have a figure of this one.

[Jose S.M.]

Ilike that reconstruction hehe, this animal would make a nice figure for sure.

[Ravonium]

Hopefully we'll find more of these peculiar basal avemetatarsalians, maybe they'll have something to say about pterosaur origins.

I agree. I'm surprised we haven't discovered one that somewhat explains how pterosaurs evolved. At the moment the closest avemetatarsalians we have discovered to a pterosaur ancestor don't explain anything about how they managed to develop flight.

This discovery is, however, yet another step forward in the evolution of avemetatarsalians.