An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified a new fossil from central Germany, offering fresh insights into the early evolutionary history of archosauromorphs. The 255-million-year-old fossil was already discovered in the 1990s in the famous Korbach fossil locality in the National Geopark GrenzWelten and has now for the first time been examined. The discovery helps fill a crucial gap in the fossil record just before the end-Permian mass extinction, the most catastrophic extinction event in Earth’s history. The results have been published in the scientific journal Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.