Adamanasuchus

Adamanasuchus
Temporal range: Late Triassic, 222–216.5 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Aetosauria
Family: Stagonolepididae
Genus: Adamanasuchus
Lucas, Hunt & Spielmann, 2007
Type species
Adamanasuchus eisenhardtae
Lucas, Hunt & Spielmann, 2007

Adamanasuchus is an extinct genus of aetosaur. Fossils have been found from several localities from the Chinle Group in Arizona[1] and date back to the late Carnian stage of the Late Triassic.[2] The locality from which it was named after also lends its name to the Adamanian LVF (land vertebrate faunachron).

References

  1. Heckert, A. B., Lucas, S. G., Hunt, A. P., and Spielmann,J. A. (2007). Late Triassic aetosaur biochronology revised. In: Lucas, S.G. and Spielmann, J.A., eds., The Global Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 41.
  2. Lucas, S. G., Hunt, A. P., and Spielmann, J. A. (2007). A new aetosaur from the Upper Triassic (Adamanian: Carnian) of Arizona. In: Lucas, S. G. and Spielmann, J. A., eds., Triassic of the American West. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin 40 p. 241-247


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