Jushatyria

Jushatyria
Temporal range: Middle Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
(unranked): Crurotarsi
Order: Rauisuchia
Family: Rauisuchidae
Genus: Jushatyria
Sennikov, 1985
Species
  • J. vjushkovi Sennikov, 1985(type)

Jushatyria is an extinct genus of rauisuchid. Fossils have been found in the district of Kumertau near the Ural Mountains in European Russia that date back to the Ladinian stage of the Middle Triassic. Additional material has been described from a locality on the banks of the Berdyanka River that was previously assigned to a rauisuchid-like archosaur. However, this material differed from the original specimens because it lacked slit-like antorbital openings accomopanying the antorbital fossa.[1][2] Thus all material currently referred to Jushatyria most likely does not represent a single taxon.

References

  1. ^ Kalandadze, N. N., and Sennikov, A. G. (1985). Novyye reptilii iz Srednego triasia Yuzhnogo Priural'ya. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1985:77–84.
  2. ^ Gower, D. J. and Sennikov, A. G. (2000). Early Archosaurs from Russia In: Benton, M. J., Kurochkin, E. N., Shishkin, M. A. and Unwin, D. M., eds., The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press; pp. 140–159.

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