| Decuriasuchus Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
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| Skulls of D. quartacolonia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Paracrocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Loricata |
| Genus: | †Decuriasuchus França et al., 2011 |
| Type species | |
| †Decuriasuchus quartacolonia França et al., 2011
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Decuriasuchus is an extinct genus of loricatan[1] from the Middle Triassic period (Ladinian stage). It is a carnivorous archosaur that lived in what is now southern Brazil, in Paleorrota. It was first named by Marco Aurélio G. França, Jorge Ferigolo and Max C. Langer in 2011 and the type species is Decuriasuchus quartacolonia. The generic name means "unit of ten crocodiles" in Latin and Greek in reference to the ten known specimens and the animal's possible group behavior. The specific name refers to the Quarta Colonia region where the fossils were collected.[2][3]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
francaetal2011was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Marco Aurélio G. França; Jorge Ferigolo; Max C. Langer (2011). "Associated skeletons of a new middle Triassic "Rauisuchia" from Brazil" (PDF). Naturwissenschaften. 98 (5): 389–395. Bibcode:2011NW.....98..389F. doi:10.1007/s00114-011-0782-3. PMID 21445632. S2CID 4811617.
- ^ De França, Marco A. G.; Langer, Max C.; Ferigolo, Jorge (2013-01-01). "The skull anatomy of Decuriasuchus quartacolonia (Pseudosuchia: Suchia: Loricata) from the middle Triassic of Brazil". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 379 (1): 469–501. Bibcode:2013GSLSP.379..469D. doi:10.1144/SP379.8. ISSN 0305-8719. S2CID 54594830.