Sichuanosuchus

Sichuanosuchus Temporal range: Late Jurassic - ?Early Cretaceous

Life restoration of Sichuanosuchus huidongensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Crocodylomorpha
Clade:	Mesoeucrocodylia
Genus:	†Sichuanosuchus Peng, 1995
Species
†S. huidongensis Peng, 1995 (type) †S. shuhanensis Wu et al., 1997

Sichuanosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodylomorph from the Late Jurassic and possibly Early Cretaceous of China.

References

Chinese Fossil Vertebrates by Spencer G. Lucas

Major groups of basal crocodylomorphs

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Crocodylomorpha

Other basal crocodylomorphs

Almadasuchus

Crocodyliformes

"Protosuchia"	Edentosuchus Hemiprotosuchus Neuquensuchus Orthosuchus ?Pedeticosaurus Protosuchus Shantungosuchus Sichuanosuchus Tagarosuchus Zosuchus

Gobiosuchidae	Gobiosuchus Zaraasuchus

Shartegosuchidae	Adzhosuchus Fruitachampsa Kyasuchus Nominosuchus Shartegosuchus

Hsisosuchidae	Hsisosuchus

Metasuchia	Notosuchia Neosuchia

Related categories

Terrestrial crocodylomorphs
Triassic crocodylomorphs
Jurassic crocodylomorphs
Cretaceous crocodylomorphs

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