Strigosuchus
| Strigosuchus Temporal range: Early Jurassic | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Subclass: | Diapsida |
| (unranked): | Archosauria |
| Superorder: | ?Crocodylomorpha |
| Suborder: | ?Sphenosuchia |
| Genus: | Strigosuchus Simmons, 1965 |
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Strigosuchus is an extinct genus of crurotarsan from the Early Jurassic of China. Remains have been found from the Lower Lufeng Series in Yunnan.[1] The genus was named by paleontologist D.J. Simmons in 1965 with the type species being S. licinus.[2] Although originally classified as an ornithosuchid, the fragmentary holotype specimen of Strigosuchus has been suggested to be from a sphenosuchian rather than an ornithosuchid.[3] Other Lufeng crocodylomorphs found in association with Strigosuchus include the protosuchian Platyognathus and the sphenosuchian Dibothrosuchus.[4]
References
- ↑ Dong, Z. (1980). "Chinese dinosaur faunas and their stratigraphic position" (PDF). Journal of Stratigraphy 4 (4): 256–263.
- ↑ Simmons, D.J. (1965). "The non-therapsid reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China". Fieldiana Geology 15: 1–93. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.5426.
- ↑ Parrish, J.M. (1987). "The origin of crocodilian locomotion". Paleobiology 13 (4): 396–414.
- ↑ Padian, K. (1989). "Did "thecodontians" survive the Triassic?". In Lucas, S.G. and Hunt, A.P. (eds.). Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest. Albuquerque: New Mexico Museum of Natural History. pp. 401–414.
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