Fenhosuchus

Fenhosuchus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Subclass: Diapsida
Order: ?Rauisuchia
Family: ?Rauisuchidae
Genus: Fenhosuchus
Young, 1964
Species
  • F. cristatus Young, 1964 (type)

Fenhosuchus is an extinct genus of archosauriform. Fossils have been found from China and date back to the Early Triassic. The genus was named after the Fen River in Shanxi Province from which specimens were found. It may prove to be a chimera being composed of material from several different animals. Some material can be identified as belonging to a rauisuchid.[1] The calcaneum of Fenhosuchus seems to belong to an erythrosuchid or other basal archosaur.[2][3] Much of the material of the tarsal bones seem to be similar to those of the genus Shansisuchus.

References

  1. ^ Bonaparte, J. F. (1986). Locomotion in Rauisuchid Thecodonts. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 3(4):210-218.
  2. ^ Parrish, J. M. (1992). Phylogeny of the Erythrosuchidae (Reptilia: Archosauriformes). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12:93–102.
  3. ^ Gower, D. J. (1996). The tarsus of erythrosuchid archosaurs, and implications for early diapsid phylogeny. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 116:347–375.

External links