homoplasiously

In contrast to most archosaurs, but as in other somphospondylans (Fig 6), Europasaurus (unpub. data) and, homoplasiously, most coelurosaurian theropods, the abducens nerve passes lateral to the pituitary fossa rather than through it (Figs 4, 5A, 5B and 5D, S1 Fig ).

2015 October 8, “A New Titanosaurian Braincase from the Cretaceous “Lo Hueco” Locality in Spain Sheds Light on Neuroanatomical Evolution within Titanosauria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Synonyms: homoplastically