Saurosuchus

Saurosuchus
Temporal range: Late Triassic, Late Carnian to Early Norian 231.4–225 Ma
Mounted skeleton of Saurosuchus galilei in Mori Art Museum Gallery, Japan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauria
Clade: Pseudosuchia
Clade: Paracrocodylomorpha
Clade: Loricata
Family: Prestosuchidae
Genus: Saurosuchus
Reig, 1959
Species:
S. galilei
Binomial name
Saurosuchus galilei
Reig, 1959

Saurosuchus (meaning "lizard crocodile") is an extinct genus of large loricatan pseudosuchian archosaurs that lived in South America during the Late Triassic period. It was a heavy, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal carnivore, likely being the apex predator in the Ischigualasto Formation.[1]

  1. ^ Reig, O. A. (1959). "Primeros datos descriptivos sobre nuevos arcosaurios del Triásico de Ischigualasto (San Juan, Argentina)". Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina. 13 (4): 257–270.