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Fig. 3 | Morphological disparity between early ornithodirans. a,f, Gnathovorax cabreirai. b,g, Scleromochlus taylori. c, Ixalerpeton polesinensis. d,i, V.gassenae. e, j, Seazzadactylus venieri. h, D. romeri. a–e, Skull in left lateral view, reconstruction.f–j, Right forelimb in lateral view. k,l, V.gassenae gen.et sp. nov. plotted in the ornithodiran morphospace based on the whole skeleton (k) and skull (l). m,n, Sum of variances of the whole skeleton (m) and skull (n); dots are means,and 95% confidence intervals were generated using the two tails of values recovered from 9,999 bootstrap technical replicates of a dataset comprising n = 11 (whole skeleton) and n = 12 (skull) species of Ornithodiran precursors, n = 18 (whole skeleton and skull) species of Dinosauria and n = 10 (whole skeleton and skull) species of Pterosauria.pt,Pteroid.