Brachysuchus
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| Brachysuchus Temporal range: Late Triassic, Carnian | |
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| Skull of Brachysuchus megalodon in the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Phytosauria |
| Family: | Phytosauridae |
| Genus: | †Brachysuchus Case, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| †Brachysuchus megalodon Case, 1929 | |
Brachysuchus is an extinct genus of phytosaur known from the late Triassic period (Carnian stage) of Dockum Group in Texas, USA. It is known from the holotype UMMP 10336 is composed of a skull, lower jaws and partial postcranium and from the associated paratype UMMP 14366, nearly complete skull, recovered from the 'Pre-Tecovas Horizon' in the Dockum Group.[1][2] It was first named by Case in 1929 and the type species is Brachysuchus megalodon. Its closest relative was Angistorhinus.[2]
References
- ↑ Case, E. C. (1929). "Description of the skull of a new form of phytosaur with notes on the characters of described North American phytosaurs". Memoirs of the University of Michigan Museums, Museum of Paleontology 2: 1–56.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Michelle R. Stocker (2010). "A new taxon of phytosaur (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Late Triassic (Norian) Sonsela Member (Chinle Formation) in Arizona, and a critical reevaluation of Leptosuchus Case, 1922". Palaeontology 53 (5): 997–1022. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00983.x.
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