Saurosuchus
genus of reptiles
Saurosuchus ("lizard crocodile") was a huge extinct crocodile-like pseudosuchian archosaur.[1]
| Saurosuchus Temporal range: Upper Triassic
231.4 mya | |
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| Mounted skeleton of Saurosuchus galilei in Mori Arts Center Gallery, Japan | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Paracrocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Loricata |
| Family: | †Prestosuchidae |
| Genus: | †Saurosuchus Reig, 1959 |
| Species: | †S. galilei
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| Saurosuchus galilei Reig, 1959
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It lived in South America during the Upper Triassic period. It was a heavy, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal carnivore. Probably it was the apex predator in its territory (the Ischigualasto Formation.[2]
References
change- ↑ Heckert A.B; Lucas S.G. & Krzyzanowski S.E. 2002. The rauisuchian archosaur Saurosuchus from the Upper Triassic Chinle Group, Southwestern U.S.A., and its biochronological significance. In Heckert A.B.; Lucas S.G. (eds) Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, vol. 21, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. pp. 241–247.
- ↑ Reig, O. A. (1959). "Primeros datos descriptivos sobre nuevos arcosaurios del Triásico de Ischigualasto (San Juan, Argentina)". Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina. 13 (4): 257–27.