Saurosuchus

genus of reptiles

Saurosuchus ("lizard crocodile") was a huge extinct crocodile-like pseudosuchian archosaur.[1]

Saurosuchus
Temporal range: Upper Triassic
231.4 mya
Mounted skeleton of Saurosuchus galilei in Mori Arts Center Gallery, Japan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Paracrocodylomorpha
Clade: Loricata
Family: Prestosuchidae
Genus: Saurosuchus
Reig, 1959
Species:
S. galilei
Binomial name
Saurosuchus galilei
Reig, 1959

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

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.